Baker Institute fellows and scholars are on the move this summer as they attend conferences and connect with industry and government leaders around the world. For a detailed look at their itineraries, click over to our interactive Google map.
Highlights for the Energy Forum include trips to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for an international Association of Energy Economics conference and to Tokyo, for presentations on energy and climate change at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, then headed to Morocco to oversee six Rice University students who are attempting to harvest water from fog, part of a forum program to promote sustainability in developing countries.
Mahmoud El-Gamal, Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics, is also racking up frequent flyer miles, with trips to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Cairo, Egypt; and Washington D.C., to lecture on the Arab world after the financial crisis and alternative microfinance models for the Muslim poor.
In June, Baker Institute founding director Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian and Steve Lewis, Fellow in Asian Studies, led a team of institute fellows and scholars who attended the 2010 Shanghai Expo and discussed U.S.-China relations with the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies.
Back in the United States, Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, presented research on cost shifting at U.S. hospitals at an American Society of Health Economists conference at Cornell University, while Baker Institute science and technology policy fellow Kirstin Matthews flew to California to attend the International Society for Stem Cell Research conference.
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