GEDS Associate Director Presents at UH Law Center’s North American Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Conference
Dr. Rebecca Golden Timsar is the Associate Director of the Graduate Certificate in Global Energy, Development, and Sustainability (GEDS). Her scholarly background is in anthropology, international non-profit management,
conflict, and gender, with a specialization in Africanist cultural anthropology. Dr.
Golden Timsar’s career experience includes Head of Mission for Médecins sans Frontières/MSF
(Doctors without Borders) in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Sierra
Leone, and India. She was a member of the MSF USA Board of Directions, among others.
She has extensive experience and research in extractive industries, especially on
the topics of petrol violence, and the intersections of gender, religion, health,
and age on oil and gas activities. Her recent publication, “Oil, Masculinity, & Violence:
Egbesu Worship in the Niger Delta” examines the topics of power, oil companies, the
Nigerian government, religion, youth, and masculinity.
This spring semester, Dr. Golden Timsar presented at the University of Houston Law Center symposium, “Second North American Environment, Energy
& Natural Resources Conference: North American Energy and Environmental Policy in
Transition” which was held May 3-4th. The conference was centered on analysis regarding shifting
North American energy and environmental policies on natural resources, the environment,
energy policy, and the economy in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Dr. Golden Timsar’s presentation at the conference included discussions on how oil
reforms can be measured. In her presentation, “Privatization of Pemex”, Dr. Golden
Timsar examined the intersections between sovereignty, oil and gas production, privatization,
and social justice. She called for policymakers, regulators, and investors to be intentional
in considering all the issues at hand to develop their policies, including: the rights
of local indigenous peoples, the impacts of extractive industries on society, drug
trafficking, oil theft, human trafficking, and environmental effects.
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