Meghan L. O'Sullivan

Meghan L. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. An advisor to companies and governments, she is also the North America chair of the Trilateral Commission. O’Sullivan has extensive experience in policy formulation and negotiation, including serving as special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy national security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan. She also was vice chair of the 2013 All Party Talks in Northern Ireland. An award-winning author, her third book, Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power, was published in 2017.