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Energy & the Real Cost of War

Hosted by:
Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Mason Square Campus
3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201

May 5, 2026
Van Metre Hall Auditorium

Moderator:

David Priess
Senior Fellow of the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security
Global Head of Training & Education for Emergent Risk International
Former Analyst and Daily Intelligence Briefer for the Central Intelligence Agency
Author of The President’s Book of Secrets., The Definitive History of the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefing

Featured Speakers:

Amb. (ret.) Richard Kauzlarich
Distinguished Visiting Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Energy Science and Policy at the Schar School
Former National Intelligence Officer for Europe in the National Intelligence Council
Former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, and Bosnia and Herzogovina, among a 32-year career with the US State Department’s Foreign Service

Mark Finley
Non-Resident Fellow in energy and global oil at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
Former Senior Analyst and Manager for the Central Intelligence Agency, focused on global energy markets, their implications for US strategic interests, and the policies of key oil-producing and -consuming countries
Former Senior US Economist at BP, responsible for production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy

Inside Scoop Special 850

A discussion on the intersection of energy and space policy.

Host:

Hina Kazmi
Adjunct Faculty for the Schar School of Policy and Government, teaching a graduate course in Managing Government Contracting
Member on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Philanthropy Council for Engineering

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