Phillip Cornell is the Senior Advisor for Energy & Environment at the Economist Group (Economist Intelligence Unit) where he built and led that global research and advisory practice. He is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, specializing in international energy economics, security, and transition. He chairs the Clean Energy Ministerial initiative on energy interconnection, and advises the World Bank, IMF, IEA and other institutions. Cornell previously held leadership positions at the World Bank’s Energy & Extractives unit, Saudi Aramco’s corporate strategy team, the IEA, and NATO. At NATO he helped to set up the Alliance energy security capability, and at the IEA he served as the Senior Policy Advisor to two successive Executive Directors. At both institutions, he was responsible for war-gaming major energy supply crises with international security implications. Cornell has held research positions at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey), the Royal United Services Institute (London) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford). He holds Masters degrees with distinction in International Economics (energy focus) and European Studies (security focus) from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He received his BA cum laude in International Relations from Stanford University.