Morgan Bazilian

Morgan D. Bazilian is an American-Irish scholar. He is the director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines. His research focuses on energy security, minerals supply chains, infrastructure investment, national security, and international affairs. He has published over 230 articles in learned journals. His book, Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security is the first to establish a wide variety of mathematical approaches to the topic, and his work on energy and poverty is likewise foundational for that field. He has been published in both Science (journal) and Nature (journal) on multiple occasions.

Education Bazilian has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in thermal physics from the University of Colorado Boulder, a master's degree in applied physics from Murdoch University in Western Australia, and a PhD in energy systems and thermodynamics from University of New South Wales (2002).

Career In 2001, Bazilian was a Fulbright Fellow at SINTEF in Norway. From 2002 to 2007, Bazilian worked as the innaugural head of energy policy and at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. In 2008, Bazilian was the lead negotiator for the European Union on technology at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change climate negotiations. In 2009, he became special advisor on energy access to the Director-General of United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and helped to develop the United Nations Sustainable Energy For All Initiative while leading the UN-Energy program. In 2011, he began working as the deputy director of the Joint Institute on Strategic Energy Analysis at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. From 2014 to 2018, he was the World Bank's lead energy specialist. and University College Cork. He is a board member of the Veterans Advanced Energy Project.

Dr. Bazilian has testified for both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, as well as governing bodies of Ireland and the European Union. He sits on several tech and finance company Advisory Boards, such as: Air Capture, Capsol Technologies, and Nomadic Ventures.

Early life Prior to his career in energy and security, Bazilian was a professional mountain guide on Mount Rainier and Denali for Rainier Mountaineering and International Mountain Guides, and became the 10th American to summit the world's 6th tallest peak - Cho Oyu. He is also a published poet. As a boy, he started a garage band - Prophets of the Void - with Grammy winner Brad Mehldau.