EDUCATION Chemical Engineering: Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Law Degree: Fordham University COURSES International Petroleum Joint Ventures AWARDS Who’s Who in America Who’s Who in Finance and Industry Who’s Who in the World and American Men and Women in Science PORTFOLIO AREA Legal, Fiscal and Contracts
DR ADAM LOUIS SHRIER (LOU) Dr Adam Louis Shrier (Lou) is Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches graduate students at the School of International and Public Affairs. His courses deal with energy trade and investment, business structures and institutions, and public policy. He also serves as faculty advisor to project teams of selected students working for external clients from government and industry. Lou has also presented university-level courses in Angola, Czech Republic, Russia and China, and for the past 6 years he has co-instructed (with Jay Park) the CWC course on “International Petroleum Joint Ventures”. In addition, he has served as a Senior Advisor to a number of professional and consulting organisations. For nearly 25 years Lou has been an international business developer and a management consultant to the energy, environment and chemical industries. He has started-up and acquired firms, arranged for international investments, and negotiated technology transfers. As strategic advisor, he has helped private and state-controlled companies to formulate and implement long-term investment strategies and to streamline their organisational structure and business processes; and he has consulted to government agencies around the world on planning, policy development and economic reform programs. Earlier, Lou spent 25 years as an executive of Exxon (now ExxonMobil) Corporation, in a series of commercial, technical and corporate assignments. At various times, he had management responsibility for: international strategic planning and government relations; commercial dealings with Centrally-Planned Economies (during the Cold War); supply and transportation planning and the profitability of worldwide oil trading; coordination of energy security and emergency preparedness programs; membership on the Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency; conservation of the marine environment; and corporate innovation research.
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