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Home page  About CSIS Affiliated Advisers and Experts Herman Franssen
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Herman FranssenSenior Associate (Non-resident), Energy and National Security Program |
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Herman Franssen is a senior associate with the CSIS Energy and National Security Program. He is also president of International Energy Associates, a consulting company that provides economic analysis, conducts political risk assessments, and assists companies in establishing relationships with national oil companies and governments in the Middle East. He is also a senior associate with the PEL Group in London, with GDP Associates in New York, as well as with MEC and the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London. He is also an adjunct scholar with the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. Prior to establishing International Energy Associates in 1996, Dr. Franssen was the senior economic adviser to the minister of petroleum and minerals in Oman from 1985 to 1996. While there, he assisted with the formation of the group of Independent Petroleum Exporting Countries (IPEC) in 1986 and acted as principal liaison of the Omani Ministry of Petroleum with OPEC and the consuming countries. Earlier, Dr. Franssen was chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris (1980–1985) and helped produce its first World Energy Outlook in 1983. Before joining the IEA, he was director of the Office of International Market Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Franssen was born in the Netherlands and educated in the Netherlands and the United States. He received a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A., M.A.L.D., and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts. |
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