Dr. Charles K. Ebinger is the Director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was a Senior Advisor at the International Resources Group, where he advised over 50 governments on various aspects of their energy policies. Dr. Ebinger has special expertise in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa and has also worked in the East, Southeast, and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He is the author of Energy and Security in South Asia: Cooperation or Conflict? (Brookings Institution Press, September 2011) and co-editor of Business and Nonproliferation: Industry’s Role in Safeguarding a Nuclear Renaissance, (Brookings Institution Press, October 2011). He received his B.A. from Williams College and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.