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May 20, 2020 34 mins

In this episode, we discuss the geopolitics of the recent oil price crash with Elai Rettig. We’ll cover the demand crisis due to COVID-19, geopolitical actors in the price crash, and what we might expect to see happen in the oil industry in the near future and over the next few years. We talk about challenges in various regions of the world, likely effects on US shales, and global opportunities that may present themselves in the current climate.

Among his many accomplishments, Elai Retting is a lecturer at Washington University's Environmental Studies Program and at the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. He is also a lecturer in Energy Management at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management and a research fellow at the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy.

He specializes in energy politics and energy security in Israel and the Middle East. In this specialization, he examines the use of energy resources as a foreign policy tool and their effect on regional cooperation and conflict.

Elai Rettig was a former lecturer at New York University in Tel Aviv, and at the University of Haifa; He was a former visiting scholar at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS) in George Washington University and a former research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv;

His research has received grants from Israel's Ministry of Energy and Israel’s Ministry of Science, and scholarships from the University of Haifa and from the Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy. 

Rettig holds a BA, MBA, and PhD from Haifa University in Isreal where he studied Political Science and Government. 

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