Matthew McManus

Matthew McManus is a foreign affairs professional who has worked extensively with Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, engaging these countries and working within them. He brings deep expertise in energy policy, imports, exports, strategic commodities, sanctions, and permitting. Throughout his diplomatic career, he has addressed energy issues multilaterally through the G7, G20, and the International Energy Forum.

Most recently, he served as the deputy director in the Office of Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy within the Bureau of Energy Resources at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked on international energy and economic issues for more than three decades. He led the State Department’s Presidential permitting review team for cross-border energy infrastructure (pipelines and electric interconnections), managed the State Department’s energy analysis team, and helped shape U.S. energy security initiatives with major energy exporting and importing countries.

He also managed State Department energy training programs on oil and gas held in Houston in partnership with the Energy Workforce and Technology Council; on electric power with the National Energy Technology Lab; and on critical minerals with Argonne National Lab.

He served as the co-chair of the Market Impact Committee of the National Defense Stockpile, advising on international market impacts of purchases and dispositions of strategic commodities.

He began his diplomatic career as a trade negotiator and has an extensive background in energy policy, imports, exports, strategic commodities, sanctions, and permitting.

In addition, he teaches energy diplomacy at Georgetown University as an adjunct professor.

He earned a BA in Economics and Spanish from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown Universit

Interview Topics

• International energy geopolitics
• Energy security
• Energy sanctions and subsidies
• Oil & gas exports and trade