David Bailey has 35 years of experience managing energy-related issues around the world. He has worked at literally every level of the coal and oil and gas industries, from the UK National Coal Board during the economic and labor upheavals under the Thatcher government to responsibility for ExxonMobil’s climate policy. Mr. Bailey is a graduate of Oxford University. He teaches a course on the global oil and gas industry for the Master’s program at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He has served on the boards of the World Affairs Council of America and the National Foreign Trade Council, as well as the State Department’s International Advisory Committee on Economic Policy.