Tag: Russia

Today we were thrilled to welcome back Les Csorba, Partner in Charge of the Houston office and a member of the CEO and Board of Directors Practice focused on the energy industry at Heidrick & Struggles.

As we head into Memorial Day Weekend, we are excited to share this Special Edition with Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army Retired).

Today, we were delighted to host David Firestein, President and CEO of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (the Bush China Foundation).

We had a global discussion today centered around China with Gabe Collins, Baker Botts Fellow in Energy & Environmental Regulatory Affairs at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

On this special “Twosday,” we had the fortune of welcoming back two special guests for a discussion centered on Russia and the Ukraine and all the potential reverberations from the current conflict. Our first guest is Dr. Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at Brookings and one of the world’s leading specialists on the Former Soviet Union, Russia, and Russia’s relations with the West. In our discussion, we reference her most recent book, “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.” Our second guest is our longtime friend, Dr. Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman at IHS Markit and Chairman of CERAWeek. Dan is the author of a number of seminal books on energy and in our discussion we also touch on Dan’s latest book, “The New Map.”

For our first COBT episode of 2022, we had the great pleasure of hosting Rob West, Founder and Lead Analyst at Thunder Said Energy. With the ongoing crisis in European gas markets and the tense uncertainties over Russian troop deployments along Ukraine’s border, it was rather fitting that Rob joined us live from Estonia for…

We are in the middle of an eventful energy news week and are very excited to dig in with all of you for this week’s session. We are so pleased to welcome back our good friend Alexander Zaslavsky, Horizon Client Access, to share his expertise in Russian geopolitics and help us understand the current state…

A couple of weeks ago, President Biden met with Russian President Putin in Geneva for their first summit. To help us better understand where Russia has been and where it is going, we reached out to one of the world’s foremost Russia experts, Dr. Angela Stent. We were delighted when she agreed to visit with…

On this week’s COBT, we were very honored to be joined by Dr. Steven Koonin, author of a new book entitled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” The title refers to the central thesis of the book… which is that in the rush to proclaim climate science definitive,…