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Thursday, 20 November 2003
Innovation in the Mexican Oil Industry
Leader: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Guest Speaker: Adrian Lajous, Fellow, Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and former Director General, Pemex
11:45 am - 2:00 pm, Perkins Room (E-415), 4th Floor, Eliot Building, KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served

Biography:

Adrian Lajous is a Fellow at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a senior energy advisor to McKinney and Company and to Morgan Stanley. He is also President of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies of Petrometrica, SC, a non-Executive Director of Schulmberger Ltd., and a member of the TNK International Advisory Council. In 1994-2000 Lajous was the Director General of Pemex (CEO) and Chairman of the boards of the Pemex group of operating companies. After he stepped down, he continued to serve as the Special Advisor to the President of Mexico on international oil matters. He was responsible for Mexican crude oil exports, oil product exports and imports, international trade in petrochemicals and natural gas export. He has served on the board of directors of Mexican industrial companies and banks. In Europe, he was on the board of Repsol YPF and was a member of its chairman's committee. In 1999, he was elected Chairman of the Oxford Energy Policy Club. Lajous will pursue a monograph on the past thirty years of the Mexican oil and gas industry with CBG Harvard Electricity Policy Group.

Presentation slides:

Lajous, Adrian. "Innovation in the Mexican Oil Industry." Presentation slides from Knowledge for Development Seminar, 20 November 2003, Center for International Development, Harvard University.

Background documents:

Goldemberg, José. 1998. "Leapfrog Energy Technologies." Energy Policy 26(10): 729-741.

Moody, John. 2003. "Mexico's New Energy Chief Faces Entrenched Monopoly." The New York Times (10 October), A1.

Gallagher, Kelly Sims. 2003. "Foreign Technology in China's Automobile Industry: Implications for Energy, Economic Development, and Environment." China Environment Series 6: 1-17, http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/2-feature_1.pdf

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