David G. Victor
Professor of Law and Director, Stanford Program on Energy & Sustainable Development, Stanford University
David Victor is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. The Program’s research includes analysis of the emerging global market for natural gas, the efforts to reform markets in emerging countries, energy services in low-income communities, and the role of state-controlled oil and gas companies in the world’s hydrocarbon markets. Much of the Program’s research concentrates in Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa.
Dr. Victor is also Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the 2006 task force on energy security co-chaired by Jim Schlesinger and John Deutch and is senior adviser to the task force on climate change chaired by George Pataki and Mark Warner. He also leads a study group that is examining ways to improve management of the nation’s $50b strategic oil reserve.
His Ph.D. is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Political Science and International Relations), his B.A. from Harvard University (History and Science).
His publications include: Natural Gas and Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press, July 2006) and The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton University Press, April 2001; second edition July 2004), along with numerous essays on foreign affairs, energy policy, environmental regulation and technological change.
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