Simon Henderson is the Baker Senior Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute, specializing in energy matters and the conservative Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
Articles & Testimony
In a sector (and region) where conditions can change on a dime, the role of President Trump’s recently established "National Energy Dominance Council" is difficult to define.
On July 5, there was a (virtual) meeting of ministers from the OPEC+ oil cartel, organized from its headquarters in Vienna. There was a time when the world looked on, petrified, when such meetings took place, particularly during a Middle Eastern crisis, wondering by how much oil was going to go up in price and what the knock-on effect on the price of gasoline at the pump would be. That was then. This is now...
