Michael Makovsky

National Security Initiative

mmakovsky@bipartisanpolicy.org

Michael Makovsky

Michael Makovsky

Michael Makovsky joined BPC in 2006. He is a foreign policy expert, with a specialty in the intersection of international energy markets and politics with U.S. national security. From 2002-2006, he served as special assistant for Iraqi energy policy in the Office of Secretary of Defense and Director of Essential Services in the Washington office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the postwar Allied entity that governed Iraq. In those capacities, he advised senior Defense, National Security Council and Energy officials on Iraqi energy policy. Prior to his work in the Pentagon, Michael worked over a decade as a senior energy market analyst for various energy trading companies and exchanges, focusing on markets and hedging strategies for oil, petroleum products, natural gas and electric power, as well as regulatory and tax issues. He also served as a campaign manager for Missouri legislative races and worked on the Congressional staff of Senator John Danforth. Michael is founder and president of MSM Consulting LLC, an energy and political risk consulting firm. Michael has a PhD in diplomatic history from Harvard University, an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School, and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting fellow at the Claremont Institute and Institute of Contemporary British History, and has spoken at academic conferences in the U.S. and England on Winston Churchill’s diplomatic pursuits and worldview.

Mike is also the author of the following articles:
Stick must remain an option to stop Iran, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2010
Oil's Not Well in Iraq, The Weekly Standard, March 19, 2007
Iraq's Oil Progress, The Weekly Standard, August 29, 2008
Protecting Iraq's Oil, Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2007

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