David Knapp

David Knapp is Senior Editor, Global Oil Markets, Editor of Oil Market Intelligence and Co-Editor of the Energy Intelligence Briefing Service. He also serves as Managing Director of Energy Intelligence Research.

Before joining Energy Intelligence in late 2000, Dr. Knapp was Head of the International Energy Agency’s Oil Industry and Markets Division and Editor of the IEA’s Monthly Oil Market Report during much of the 1990s.

He has analyzed energy markets for over 30 years in the international, government, business and financial sectors. For 11 years, he served as Energy Economist and Energy Team Leader for the prestigious Wall Street banking and investment firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Following the Arab oil embargo, he worked at the Federal Energy Administration and the Department of Energy in Washington and Chase Manhattan Bank’s Energy Economics Division in New York.

Dr. Knapp holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a member of numerous professional organizations in the energy area. He is an Advisory Board member for the New York Energy Forum, a Charter Member of the International Association For Energy Economic and a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics as well as serving on the Advisory Board of the Geopolitics of Energy.