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Prof. Brenda Shaffer is  an internationally recognized expert on global energy trends and policies, politics in the South Caucasus,  greater Caspian and Black Sea regions as well as Caspian and Eastern Mediterranean energy. She is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center in Washington, DC, and a visiting researcher and professor at Georgetown University.

Shaffer frequently provides testimony, research and expert counsel to governments, international institutions and regional security organizations, such as NATO on energy  security policies. She has given testimony to several committees of the US Congress, including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and to the European Parliament. She frequently appears on CNBC and in major news outlets worldwide to provide insight on developments in the global oil market.

Prof. Shaffer is the author of several books: Energy Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity (MIT Press, 2002) and Partners in Need: The Strategic Relationship of Russia and Iran (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001). Energy Politics is used as a text book in over 200 university courses around the globe. She has also served as the editor for Beyond the Resource Curse (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy (MIT Press, 2006).

She holds a PhD degree from Tel Aviv University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the International Security Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She previously served as the Research Director for the Caspian Studies Program at Harvard University.