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 is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee; Visiting Professor at Imperial College’s Centre for Environmental Policy in London; Part Time BP Professor at the Moscow School of Management’s Energy Centre at Skolkovo; and a fellow of the Energy Delta Institute. Since 2011 he has been the EU speaker for the EU-Russia Gas Advisory Council.He is the author of several books and many shorter works on energy and natural gas issues in: the UK, Europe (western and eastern), the former Soviet Union and Asia. The second edition of his edited volume: Natural Gas in Asia: the challenges of growth in China, India, Japan and Korea was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. He is co-editor with Bassam Fattouh of Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, published in 2011. His most recent edited book isThe Pricing of Internationally Traded Gas, published by Oxford University Press in 2012.