International Relations Lecture Series

Lea-Rachel Kosnik

11 January, 2023 • 10:45 AM

International Energy Markets in Flux

About The Topic

Professor Kosnik will discuss historical and current trends in global energy patterns, including how political shocks such as the war in Ukraine has been affecting particular energy markets. She will offer policy prescriptions on possible ways to regulate energy markets in the future, in particular with an eye towards managing climate change and other global crises.

About the speaker

Lea-Rachel Kosnik is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She received her PhD from the University of California-Los Angeles after having spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Ankara, Turkey, studying hydroelectric power and renewable energy in the Middle East.