“I’ve known EPRINC through most of its long history. I am delighted to join my dear colleague and friend Lou Pugliaresi and the EPRINC team to help move vital energy and materials thinking to the next stage.” — Michelle Michot FossDr. Michot Foss is an Advisor at L’Acadie Network and a collaborator at Rice University’s Carbon Hub, focused on commercializing advanced carbon materials. She retired as chief energy economist and head of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was also an executive instructor at McCombs School of Business and an ExxonMobil Instructor of Excellence. She created the Bureau’s Center for Energy Economics while at the University of Houston, where she served as a research professor and Shell Interdisciplinary Scholar. Earlier in her career she served as director of research at investment bank Simmons & Company International and at Rice Center. Her career research includes major projects for the Texas Comptroller, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, World Bank, Japan’s External Trade Organization, and the Saudi Arabia-led Future Minerals Forum. She led industry research consortia for U.S.–Mexico natural gas trade and LNG development in North America, and implemented technical assistance programs sponsored by USAID and the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in more than 20 countries, including Central Asia, Ukraine, West Africa, Uganda, India, Bangladesh, and Mexico. Her capacity-building program New Era in Oil, Gas & Power Value Creation was recognized twice by World Oil Awards for excellence. Dr. Michot Foss serves on the board of directors of Consumer Energy Alliance and on advisory councils for Energy Intelligence Group, the North American Energy Standards Board, and Missouri University of Science & Technology’s O’Keefe Center for Critical Minerals. She is past president of both the International Association for Energy Economics and the United States Association for Energy Economics, where she was named a senior fellow. She holds degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Houston.