Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar is the Founding Director of the Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan from July 2012 to August 2014. He is one of the leading energy experts in the United States. Morningstar provided the Journal with insight on the political results of declining energy prices, new trends in energy, the impacts of the energy abundance in the United States and the nexus of climate change and global security.
