Amy Myers Jaffe Keynote Speaker

Leading expert on global energy policy, geopolitical risk and sustainability
Executive Director for Energy and Sustainability, University of California (2012-2020)
Elle Magazine's "Women for the Environment" (2006)

Amy Myers Jaffe's Biography

Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, energy and sustainability and geopolitical risk and author of “Energy’s Digital Future.” Jaffe currently serves as a research professor and Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. She teaches graduate level courses examining clean tech innovation and business, global climate finance, and energy and climate policy. Jaffe is widely published on energy, commodity markets, and finance and is author of several books including her most recent book, “Energy’s Digital Future” published in 2021 by Columbia University Press and Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold (with co-author Mahmoud El-Gamal) published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.

Jaffe is a regular contributor to the popular podcast “The Energy Gang” and a frequent media commentator in television and print media, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Financial Times of London, and CNN International. She holds a career prize in energy economics from the US Association for Energy Economics and also served as the organisation’s President in 2020. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where she served as the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change from 2017 to 2020.

Ms Jaffe has advised numerous organizations on geopolitical risk and climate and sustainability including multinational organizations and major Fortune 500 companies. She is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Jaffe served as senior advisor on sustainability to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California, Regents where she helped design the sustainable investing framework for the UC’s $140 billion in pension and endowment funds. She has taught energy and sustainability classes at several universities including New York University, Rice University, Yale University, and University of California, Davis.

She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies with a specialization in Arab language and history.

The Energy Future: Transformational Trends in the Oil and Gas Industry

Navigating the Energy Mid-Transition amid Geopolitical Turmoil

Net Zero 2050: Corporate and Government Strategies

Climate Risk and Energy Investing: Strategies for High Return

The Geopolitics of a Greening Economy

U.S. Energy Policy

Energy's Digital Future: How new technologies will transform how we produce, transport and use energy

Alternative fuels: natural gas vs hydrogen vs batteries: Sustainability and competition of fuels.

Energy Markets in the Context of Global Economic Warfare

Artificial Intelligence and Energy

Artificial Intelligence and National Industrial and Security Policy

Geopolitics of Electricity

She sits at the intersection of energy policy, geopolitical risk and sustainability, advising organisations on how power shifts, supply shocks and climate policy reshape markets.
She translates complex energy and commodity dynamics into practical implications for strategy, investment and risk management, drawing on decades of published analysis and forecasting.
She brings academic and real-world credibility from senior roles at NYU and the University of California, where she helped shape sustainable investing frameworks for large institutional portfolios.
She equips leaders to navigate the energy transition with clear, decision-ready insight on clean tech innovation, climate finance and policy, informed by her research and teaching.