Ms. Marianne Kah is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Advisory Board member at Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.

Prior to joining the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy in 2017, Ms. Kah was Chief Economist of ConocoPhillips at its Houston headquarters – a role she held for 25 years. She was responsible for developing ConocoPhillips’ market outlooks for oil and natural gas and was the company’s expert in scenario planning. She also communicated her views to numerous external stakeholders, including Energy Ministers, legislators, think tanks and governments.

Prior to ConocoPhillips, Ms. Kah was the Manager of Corporate Planning at Cabot Corporation in Boston and a Coordinator of Strategic Planning at Conoco in Houston. In the early 1980s, she was a Senior Analyst in the Policy Development Group of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation in Washington, D.C. She has been a frequent presenter and panelist at international energy forums and conferences including the Aspen Institute’s Energy Policy Forum, CERAWeek, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, International Energy Agency and many others. Ms. Kah has a B.S. from Cornell University and Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.