Jonathan Stern founded the OIES Natural Gas Research Programme in 2003 and was its Director until October 2011 when he became its Chairman and a Senior Research Fellow, he became Distinguished Fellow in October 2016. He is honorary professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee; visiting professor at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London; fellow of the Energy Delta Institute and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (in Tokyo). From 2011-16 he was the EU Speaker of the EU–Russia Gas Advisory Council. He is the author and editor of several books, including: Natural Gas in Asia: The Challenges of Growth in China, India, Japan and Korea, the second edition of which was published by OUP in 2008; co-editor with Bassam Fattouh of Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa (OUP, 2011); and editor of The Pricing of Internationally Traded Gas (OUP, 2012). In 2014, his publications included papers (co-authored with other members of the gas programme) ‘Reducing European Dependence on Russian Gas – Distinguishing Natural Gas Security from Geopolitics’ and ‘The Dynamics of a Liberalised European Gas Market: Determinants of Hub Prices and Roles and Risks of Major Players’. He is author of two chapters in: eds. Anne-Sophie Corbeau and David Ledesma, `LNG Markets in Transition: the Great Reconfiguration’, published by OIES and KAPSARC in 2016. His most recent paper on The Future of Gas in Decarbonising European Energy Markets was published by the Institute in January 2017.