Francisco J. Monaldi

Francisco Monaldi is the Director of the Latin America Energy Program and a Fellow at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a Lecturer at Rice University; a nonresident Fellow at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy; and a member of the International Faculty at IESA School of Management in Venezuela. He has consulted several governments, multilateral agencies, and corporations; and authored numerous academic publications on the political economy of energy policy. Monaldi holds a Ph.D. in political science/political economy from Stanford University, an M.A. in international and development economics from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, in Caracas.