Francisco J. Monaldi

About Francisco J. Monaldi

Francisco Monaldi is the Director of the Latin America Energy Program and the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Latin American Energy Policy at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a Lecturer at Rice’s Economics Department and Jones Graduate School of Business; and a member of the International Faculty at IESA School of Management in Venezuela, where he was a Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for Energy and the Environment. He is a member of the International Advisory Council of Global Americans, the Atlantic Council’s Venezuela Solutions Group, and the Education Advisory Board of the Association of International Energy Negotiators. He has held academic positions at the Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford’s Hoover Institution, Tufts’ Fletcher School, Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy, Tecnológico de Monterrey (México), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela). He has consulted several governments, multilateral agencies, and corporations; and authored numerous academic publications on the political economy of energy and resources policy. Monaldi holds a Ph.D. in political economy from Stanford University, an M.A. in international economics from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, in Caracas.

Experience

1. International Faculty and Founding Director of the Center on Energy and the Environment

   Iesa

   Mar 2005 — Present · Caracas, VE

   Full Professor at IESA (20••••22) and currently member of the International Faculty.Founding Director of the International Center on Energy and the Environment (20••••12), where I currently serve in the Advisory Board.

Education

• Yale University

  MA, International and Development Economics

  1996

• Stanford University

  PhD, Political Science / Political Economy

  2002

• UCAB - Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

  BA, Economics

  1992

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Diploma in Advanced Economics

  1994