Christopher Neyor
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Christopher Z. Neyor is a Liberian international energy analyst who is the former President/CEO of the National Oil Company of Liberia.{{Cite web |url=http://monroviainquirer.com/2014/03/17/liberia-turns-a-2-face-nation-christopher-neyor-asserts/ |title=Liberia Turns A 2-Face Nation…Christopher Neyor Asserts {{!}} The Inquirer Newspaper |access-date=2014-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606224523/http://monroviainquirer.com/2014/03/17/liberia-turns-a-2-face-nation-christopher-neyor-asserts/ |archive-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead }}
Education
Christopher Neyor is a former visiting scholar at the Center for Energy and the Environment of the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |last= |date=2018-07-31 |title=Sam Jackson, Chris Neyor Propose US$700 Million Loan For Liberia |url=https://frontpageafricaonline.com/business/economy/sam-jackson-chris-neyor-propose-us700-million-loan-for-liberia/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=FrontPageAfrica |language=en-US}} He did his undergraduate study in Systems Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and pursued graduate work in energy economics at the University of Denver and Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.
Career
Neyor is the former President/CEO of the National Oil Company of Liberia, before stepping down in 2012. He is the current president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Morweh Energy Group, an energy consultancy firm based in Monrovia, Liberia.[http://www.liberianobserver.com/politics/neyor-decries-%E2%80%98congo-country%E2%80%99-politics Neyor Decries ‘Congo-Country’ Politics | The Liberian Observer] He spent a decade with the Liberia Electricity Corporation and served as its final Managing Director before the 1989 breakout of the Liberian Civil Wars.[http://www.aertc.org/conference/cneyor.asp Welcome to the AERTC Conference - Overview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112204915/http://www.aertc.org/conference/cneyor.asp |date=2014-11-12 }}{{Cite web |last=Newman |first=Austine |date=2024-04-27 |title=Energy Expert Christopher Neyor Outlines Overlooked Solution To Liberia's Power Outages - Verity News |url=https://verityonlinenews.com/energy-expert-christopher-neyor-outlines-overlooked-solution-to-liberias-power-outages/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=verityonlinenews.com |language=en-US}} During the 2006 to 2018 administration of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, he served as an advisor on energy issues and helped create the 2015 Liberia National Energy Policy.
From X until X, Neyor was a representative for Liberia at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Neyor is noted for his reformist agenda and the contributions he has made to the energy and educational sectors in Liberia.{{Cite web |url=http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/op-ed/commentaries-features/1817-undercurrent-why-christopher-neyor-will-win-montserrado |title=FrontPageAfrica - Undercurrent: Why Christopher Neyor Will Win Montserrado |access-date=2014-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606202855/http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/op-ed/commentaries-features/1817-undercurrent-why-christopher-neyor-will-win-montserrado |archive-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead }}
Book contributions
In 2013, Neyor contributed to a textbook on environmental policy called The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy in Chapter 19, titled "Assessing Potential Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia, alongside Jessica Donovan, Keith Lawrence, Eduard Niesten, and Eric Werker.{{Cite book |last1=Livermore |first1=Michael A. |url=https://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/719603366.pdf |title=The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy |last2=Revesz |first2=Richard L. |date=2013-02-04 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199333028 |pages=293 }}
- The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy (2013), published by Oxford University Press, by Michael Livermore, Dean King, Lawrence King, and Richard Revesz
See also
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