US Energy Superpower Status and a New Energy Diplomacy
Abstract: In the last decade, U.S. energy posture has shifted from one of weakness to one of strength: the United States has become the global energy superpower, combining global leadership in energy production, technology discovery and investments. The breadth of energy developments in the United States requires a new take on how it should engage with the world. Energy diplomacy should shift toward maximizing US and ally energy security, energy market stability in an increasingly unstable world, global supply chains, emerging energy technologies, and environmental policy. American leadership is always important, and today America is the global leader in energy. I will discuss the components of this leadership, how the U.S. achieved that and propose new global engagement approaches for US administrations and policy.
Bio: The Honorable Paul M. Dabbar is co-founder and CEO of Bohr Quantum Technology, a spin-out of Caltech focused on developing networking technologies for the emerging quantum internet. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, a board member at Dominion Energy and Montana Technologies.
Prior to that the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed him as the U.S. Department of Energy's fourth Under Secretary for Science. He was the Department's lead on fundamental energy research, energy technologies, science, and commercialization of technologies. He managed over 60,000 people with a budget of $15 billion p.a. at over 100 sites, managing the majority of the U.S. National Labs. He also ran the Environmental Management program at the Department, managing over $500 billion in nuclear liabilities resulting from NNSA missions. Prior to Under Secretary, he worked in operations, finance, and strategy roles in the energy and national defense sectors. As Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, he had over $400 billion in transaction experience across all energy sectors. In addition, he had a senior leadership role for the company's commodity trading business. Before J.P. Morgan, he was a nuclear submarine officer, and worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He has been published widely including in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Bloomberg Law, the Hoover Institution/Stanford University, and Columbia University.
