Leonard Coburn

Leonard L. Coburn is the President of Coburn International Energy in Washington, DC, where he focuses on international energy issues with a concentration on Russia, Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Middle East. He specializes on oil, gas, political risk, and geopolitics. Previously, Mr. Coburn was a Director of the Office of Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). He managed the US-Russia Energy dialogue, and was responsible for managing government energy relations for countries ranging from Russia, Kazakhstan, other CIS countries, and Turkey. Mr. Coburn was also Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Oil Markets. Prior to that, he was Director of the Office of Russia, Newly Independent States and Middle East at the DoE, where he managed international oil market issues including responsibility for oil market emergency response mechanisms. Before that, Mr. Coburn was Director of the Office of Oil Policy at DoE, where he was responsible for formation of oil policy issues working directly with secretarial officers resulting in efforts such as the Domestic Natural Gas and Oil Initiative Energy. He spent 15 years before that with the DoE as Director in the Office of Competition, where he advocated before Congress, state legislatures, federal and state commissions on energy issues, including oil pipelines, gasoline marketing, competition in oil, gas, electricity and coal markets. (This is me - Update Profile)