Michelle Michot Foss

Michelle Michot Foss, PhD has 45 years in energy and materials research and consulting with extensive international experience, publications, public speaking, and testimonies. She is a non-resident research fellow, U.S. Naval War College; a distinguished fellow, Energy Policy Research Foundation; and collaborator at Rice University’s Carbon Hub.

At Rice she was fellow in Energy, Minerals and Materials, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Center for Energy Studies. Dr. Michot Foss 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. At UTA she was an executive instructor for McCombs School of Business and an ExxonMobil Instructor of Excellence; and a member of the advisory committees for UTA’s Jackson School of Geosciences Energy & Earth Resources graduate program and Jackson School Endowment. Previously, Dr. Michot Foss was a research professor and Shell Interdisciplinary Scholar at University of Houston; director of research at investment bank Simmons & Company International and at Rice Center; and worked on mine permitting and remediation with a Denver-based environmental engineering group.

Her career research highlights include 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 US-Mexico natural gas trade and LNG development in North America. She implemented technical assistance programs sponsored by USAID and the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in more than 20 countries and regions, including Central Asia, Ukraine, West Africa, Uganda, India, Bangladesh and Mexico. She also established and led New Era in Oil, Gas & Power Value Creation, a capacity building program for energy sector professionals from more than 40 countries. New Era was recognized twice by World Oil Awards for excellence.

She serves on the board of directors for 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 a member of the government affairs committees for the Women’s Mining Coalition and the Materials Research Society. She is past president of the International Association for Energy Economics and the United States Association for Energy Economics and a USAEE senior fellow. She is a Patron of the Naval War College Foundation. Michot Foss is a partner in Harvest Gas Management, LLC with oil and gas interests in the Permian Basin and South Alabama, and investor in and advisor to DexMat, commercializing carbon nanomaterials developed at Rice University. She serves on the advisory board for DaCamera, a recognized Houston performing arts organization. She is a scientist and political economist with degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Houston.