MARIANNE KAH – Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Advisory Board member
AMY MYERS JAFFE – Co-chair, Women in Energy Steering Committee and Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lew Fulton is the Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program (STEPS+) at the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS- Davis)
Mark Schwartz is the Former Head of Analytics at S&P Global Platts
Mark Finley is a Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
A critical question to emerge from the oil demand crash in 2020 caused by the global pandemic is whether it marked the beginning of an inexorable decline in consumption of the fossil fuel that could significantly speed up government efforts to meet net zero carbon targets. The changes in government policy, technology, consumer behavior, and shipping during COVID-19 have been profound. Electric vehicle sales increased in a number of countries, while overall automobile sales declined. The use of digital technology accelerated with a sharp rise in telecommuting, teleshopping, and teleconferencing, cutting into transportation oil use primarily in passenger and air travel.
