Global Affairs: Listen, Learn, Engage | Online

Formerly known as: Foreign Policy Discussion Group The Global Affairs Forum brings together scholars, policymakers, and experienced professionals to explore important issues shaping the world today. Each session features a guest speaker who offers insight into a critical global topic, explaining what is at stake, why it matters, and the choices facing policymakers and the public. Q&A to follow. Aspects of Energy Outlook Benjamin Zycher is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on energy and environmental policy. Before joining AEI, Dr. Zycher conducted a broad research program in his public policy research firm and was an intelligence community associate of the Office of Economic Analysis at the US Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He is a former senior economist at the RAND Corporation; a former adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and California State University Channel Islands; and a former senior economist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. He served as a senior staff economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, with responsibility for energy and environmental policy issues. Dr. Zycher has a doctorate in economics from UCLA; an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley; and a B.A. in political science from UCLA.