Ben Cahill

Ben Cahill is Director of Energy Markets and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis. He is based in Washington, DC. He covers geopolitics and macro trends affecting the oil and gas industry. He has led research initiatives on methane emissions and global gas, covered the market and geopolitical impact of U.S. LNG exports, and analyzed how national oil companies are responding to the energy transition. Cahill was formerly a senior fellow in the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is now a senior associate of the program. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Prior to CSIS, Cahill was a director in Energy Intelligence’s Research & Advisory group and led its country risk practice. He also wrote on corporate strategy and covered Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and the Southeast Asian national oil companies. Cahill formerly worked at PFC Energy (now part of S&P Global) in Washington, DC, and Kuala Lumpur, focusing on country risk and macro trends in the oil and gas industry. He has an MA in international affairs and economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in international relations and English from Boston University.