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BPC Staff
Michael Makovsky
Foreign Policy Director, Bipartisan Policy Center
Exec. Director, National Security Initiative
National Security Initiative
mmakovsky@bipartisanpolicy.org
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 Michael Makovsky joined BPC in 2006. He is a foreign policy expert, with a specialty in the intersection of international energy markets and politics with U.S. national security. From 2002-2006, he served as special assistant for Iraqi energy policy in the Office of Secretary of Defense and Director of Essential Services in the Washington office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the postwar Allied entity that governed Iraq. In those capacities, he advised senior Defense, National Security Council and Energy officials on Iraqi energy policy. Prior to his work in the Pentagon, Michael worked over a decade as a senior energy market analyst for various energy trading companies and exchanges, focusing on markets and hedging strategies for oil, petroleum products, natural gas and electric power, as well as regulatory and tax issues. He also served as a campaign manager for Missouri legislative races and worked on the Congressional staff of Senator John Danforth. Michael is founder and president of MSM Consulting LLC, an energy and political risk consulting firm. Michael has a PhD in diplomatic history from Harvard University, an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School, and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting fellow at the Claremont Institute and Institute of Contemporary British History, and has spoken at academic conferences in the U.S. and England on Winston Churchill’s diplomatic pursuits and worldview.
 Michael is author of Churchill’s Promised Land (Yale University Press, 2007), a diplomatic history about Winston Churchill.
Link to: Internal page for Chuchill's Promised Land
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