Jim Krane

Non-Resident Fellow, Arab Center Washington DC

Jim Krane, Ph.D., is the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Fellow in Middle East Energy Studies and co-director of the Middle East Energy Roundtable at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He specializes in energy geopolitics, with a focus on oil-exporting countries and the challenges they face from climate action, the energy transition, energy subsidies, and internal demand. He teaches classes on energy policy and geopolitics at Rice University.

Krane’s scholarly articles have been published in Nature Energy, Middle East Journal, Foreign Affairs, Energy Policy, Energy Journal, Energy Research & Social Science, Resources Policy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, MRS Energy and Sustainability, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as well as numerous edited volumes.

He is the author of two books. His acclaimed volume “City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism” (St. Martin’s Press, 2009) is widely recognized as the seminal work on the iconoclastic city-state, while his award-winning book “Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survi…