• Primary Program Oil & Gas
  • Research Interests Energy markets, availability, economics and policy

Biography

Roberto F. Aguilera is the executive director of the Oil & Gas Department at KAPSARC. Previously, he worked at the OPEC Secretariat, Curtin University (Australia), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), and Servipetrol Ltd. (Canada). He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the Colorado School of Mines and a B.Com. from the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.

His publication record includes dozens of papers in top peer-reviewed journals and an acclaimed book, The Price of Oil (Cambridge University Press). He has participated in numerous energy initiatives, including with the World Petroleum Council, the U.S. National Petroleum Council, and the U.N. Expert Group on Resource Management. In 2018-19, he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), a program that took him to nearly 30 cities worldwide. 

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