"The Geopolitics of the New Energy Landscape" A Conversation with Meghan O'Sullivan

Please join the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, the Duke University Energy Initiative, the Political Science Department and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies in welcoming Meghan O'Sullivan for a talk titled "The Geopolitics of the New Energy Landscape." One of the nation's leading experts on the geopolitics of energy, Megan O'Sullivan possesses a breadth of knowledge and experience from which our country can learn during times of uncertainty in our energy landscape.

Meghan O'Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Between 2004 and 2007, she was special assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan during the last two years of her tenure. There, she helped run the 2006 strategic policy review on Iraq which led to the "surge" strategy. She spent two years in Iraq from 2003-2008. Dr. O'Sullivan is a columnist for Bloomberg View, an advisor to energy companies, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. She is a trustee of the German Marshall Fund, on the Executive Committee of The Trilateral Commission, and a member of the board of The Mission Continues, a non-profit organization to help veterans. She is also a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and on the advisory committee for the Women's Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute.