Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, energy and sustainability and geopolitical risk and author of Energy's Digital Future. Jaffe currently services as a research professor and Director of the Global Energy, Climate, and Sustainability Lab at New York University's Center for Global Affairs.

She teaches graduate level courses examining clean tech innovation and business, global climate finance and artificial intelligence's role in energy practice. Jaffe is widely published on energy, commodity markets, and finance and is author of several books including her most recent book Energy's Digital Future and Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises (with co-author Mahmoud El-Gamal). She is currently working on a new book on the geopolitics of electricity and asymmetric warfare.  

Jaffe is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University and a regular contributor to the popular podcast “The Energy Gang” and a frequent media commentator in television and print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times of London and CNN International. Jaffe holds a career prize in energy economics from the US Association for Energy Economics and also served as the organization’s President in 2020.

Jaffe has advised numerous organizations on geopolitical risk and climate and sustainability including multinational organizations and major Fortune 500 companies. From 2014 to 2017, Jaffe served as senior advisor on energy sustainability to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California, Regents, where she helped design the sustainable investing framework for the UC’s $140 billion pension and endowment funds. She has taught energy and sustainability classes at several universities including New York University, Rice University, Yale University and University of California, Davis.

She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies with a specialization in Arabic language and history.