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Bernard Mommer holds a master's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in social science, both from the University of Tubingen, Germany. He worked as a university professor and researcher for many years at various Venezuelan universities. From 1991 to 1995 he was a senior advisor to Petroleos de Venezuela. From 1995 to 2001 he was a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and St. Anthony's College, Oxford. He also acted as an advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Mines from 1999 to 2000, and as a consultant to the Secretary General of OPEC in Vienna in 2002. Prior to his appointment to PDV UK, he was an advisor to the President of PDVSA. Dr. Mommer's publications include: Die Olfrage [The Petroleum Question] (1983: Institut fur Internationale Angelegenheiten der Universitat Hamburg, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden), "El petroleo en el pensamiento economico venezolano - Un ensayo" [Oil in the Economic Thought of Venezuela - An Essay] (Co-author Asdrubal Baptista; Prologue by Arturo Uslar Pietri. Ediciones IESA, Caracas, 1987); and The New Governance of Venezuelan Oil (1998: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies). He just finished a book on Global Oil and the Nation State that was published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, in 2002.

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