Francisco Monaldi

Francisco Monaldi is the Director of the Latin America Energy Program and the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a Lecturer on Energy Policy at Rice’s Economics Department. 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), IESA 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.