Experts
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Paul Isbell is the CAF Energy Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR) at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and the lead energy specialist of CTR’s flagship projects, the Atlantic Basin Initiative (ABI) and the Atlantic Energy Forum (AEF). He is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies in Madrid.
Previously he was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C.; Director of the Energy and Climate Change Program at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid; emerging market economist at Banco Santander; and professor of international economics and geopolitics at diverse universities across the Atlantic Basin (including the University of Alcala de Henares; ICADE-Pontificia Comillas; Syracuse University; George Washington University and the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires).
His recent work includes an analysis of global flows (“Regionalism and Interregionalism in Latin America: The Beginning or the End of Latin America’s ‘Continental Integration’?” Atlantic Future Scientific Paper, 2015) which suggests the emergence of new practical regions clustered around the world’s major ocean basins; and an argument for the development of transnational ‘ocean basin’ governance bodies, like the recently established Atlantic Energy Forum (“Atlantic Energy and the Changing Global Energy Flow Map.” Atlantic Future Scientific Paper, 2014; and “Shale Gas, el offshore y geopolitica”, Integracion & Comercio, #40, IDB-INTAL, October 2015).
Mr. Isbell is also the author of Energy and the Atlantic: The Shifting Energy Landscapes of the Atlantic Basin (German Marshall Fund and OCP Foundation, 2012) and the co-editor (with Eloy Alvarez Pelegry) of The Future of Energy in the Atlantic Basin (Center for Transatlantic Relations JHU SAIS and Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness-Deusto University, Washington, DC and Bilbao, 2015). Currently working on a new approach for engaging global geopolitics based upon this emerging ocean basin paradigm.
He is also the co-author (with Vergara et al) of major studies by international bodies on energy and climate change in Latin America, including The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for climate-resilient, low-carbon development (ECLAC-IDB-WWF, Washington, DC, 2013); Societal Benefits of Renewable Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean (IDB, Washington, DC, 2014); and The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America (WRI, 2016).
