Robert E. Brooks

Founder and President, RBAC, Inc.

Dr. Robert Brooks has over forty years as a thought leader in the subject of energy economics.  In this role he has developed some of the leading tools for understanding and predicting the consequences of changes in the natural gas industry in the US and worldwide.  Many of his tools are broadly used and maintained to this day.  
He is the Founder of RBAC, Inc. which serves industry, government agencies and leading energy consulting companies with its tools and research.
Dr. Brooks designed the industry standard GPCM® Natural Gas Market Forecasting System used by consultants, firms, government agencies and other organizations engaged in the North American energy market analysis and forecasting. 
Dr. Brooks also designed the CQMM Coal Quality Market Model, the NGL-NA® Natural Gas Liquids Forecasting System, and the GPCM-PMI™ Power Model Interface.  More recently he has developed the G2M2® Global Gas Market Modeling System for use by industry analysts and policy makers around the world.
Dr. Brooks is a member and frequent speaker at conferences of the International Association for Energy Economics and the Energy, Natural Resources & the Environment section of INFORMS.  His recent presentations have focused on the evolution of the global gas and LNG market as influenced by the North American shale gas revolution and implications of various of various pipeline projects and impacts of geopolitical events.
He is an applied mathematician, software systems designer, and energy economist with over forty years of experience in developing decision support systems for industry analysts and government policymakers. Dr. Brooks' educational background includes a Ph.D. in Management/Operations Research from MIT.
Early in his career, Dr. Brooks developed modeling systems for US Federal and State government agencies.  He was a principal model designer for US President Jimmy Carter’s National Energy Transportation Study.