Michael C. Lynch is President of Strategic Energy and Economic Research and a lecturer at Vienna University. He has combined S.B.-S.M. degrees in Political Science from M.I.T. and has analyzed oil markets for more than three and a half decades. Mr. Lynch is best known for his work in two areas: analysis of oil and gas market forecasts and the economics of petroleum supply. He has demonstrated the source of errors in oil forecasts and shortcomings in oil supply models from the 1970s. More recently, his analysis of peak oil “modeling” demonstrated that it is based on flawed methods and is essentially unscientific. Mr. Lynch was Chief Energy Economist at DRI-WEFA, Inc. a leading economic consulting firm, and President of the United States Association for Energy Economics. In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow for the USAEE. His publications have appeared in eight languages and he serves on several editorial boards, including the journal Energy Policy and Geopolitics of Energy. Mr. Lynch also blogs for Forbes on energy matters. Mr. Lynch’s book on oil supply, The “Peak Oil” Scare and the Coming Oil Flood, will be published in 2016 by Praeger.