Operational Energy

About Alan HowardBrenda ShafferDaniel Nussbaum

Alan Howard serves as the Associate Chair for the Energy Academic Group at the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Monterey California. Prior to joining NPS he amassed over 15 years in international shipping and logistics including a role with global responsibility as Director of eBusiness Development for a major multinational corporation. He has authored multiple policy papers and opeds including on energy security and operational energy. Dr. Daniel Nussbaum is the Chair of the Energy Academic Group and a faculty member in the Operations Research department at Naval Postgraduate School. He has a Ph.D. in Mathematics has served as Director Naval Center for Cost Analysis and has held other management and analysis positions with the US Army and Navy in the US and in Europe. He has given testimony to committees of the US Congress. He is active in professional societies is the Past President of the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association and he has served on the Board of the Military Operations Research Society. Prof. Brenda Shaffer is an international energy and foreign policy specialist. She is a faculty member at the US Naval Postgraduate School. Prof. Shaffer is also Senior Advisor for Energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Councils Global Energy Center in Washington DC.Prof. Shaffer is the author of several books: Iran is more than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran (De Gruyter 2022); Energy Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press 2009) Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity (MIT Press 2002) Partners in Need: The Strategic Relationship of Russia and Iran (Washington Institute for Near East Policy 2001). Shaffer is the co-author of Operational Energy (De Gruyter 2024). She has also served as the editor of Beyond the Resource Curse (University of Pennsylvania Press 2012) and Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy (MIT Press 2006).Prof. Shaffer frequently provides research and expert counsel to international institutions governments energy companies financial institutions and regional security organizations. She has given testimony to several committees of the US Congress including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and to the European Parliament.