Ben Cahill is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. Cahill is the Washington, DC-based director of energy markets and policy at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute.
Cahill 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 US liquefied natural gas exports, and analyzed how national oil companies are responding to the energy transition.
Previously, he served as a nonresident senior associate of the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as a senior fellow of that program. Prior to CSIS, Cahill was a director in Energy Intelligence’s research and advisory group and led its country risk practice. He also wrote on corporate strategy and covered Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and 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.
Cahill 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.