Steve LeVine

stevlevine@gmail.com
www.oilandglory.com
(650) 804-5563

Professional Career

2008-present Chief Foreign Affairs and Energy Writer, BusinessWeek

Washington, D.C.
Sole writer of BW blog Oil and Glory. Wrote cover story on Exxon
that demonstrated the company’s vulnerabilities in changing times.
The cover and a follow-up on-line piece also revealed that Exxon’s
reserves reporting for the last decade has been potentially misleading
Wrote take-outs on Darpa’s efforts to make breakthroughs in fuel
cells, photovoltaic solar and algae.

2007-2008 Visiting scholar, John Tower Institute, Southern Methodist University

Researched Putin’s Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the murde
six people. Random House published it June 2008. Sole writer of blo
and Glory. Wrote Feb. 2008 article for The New Republic called The
of Big Oil that was among the first in-depth pieces explaining why th
era of global dominance by Western oil companies was coming to a

2005-2007 Dallas-based energy correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Wrote story detailing how individual, often small investors were bein
into highly unprofitable oilfield investments by firms promising
enormous returns while skimming off most of the money themselve

2003-2005 Visiting Scholar, Stanford Institute for International Studies

Researched and wrote The Oil and the Glory, a history of oil on the
Caspian Sea. Random House published the book in 2007.

2000-2003 Central Asia-Caucasus correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Resident in Almaty and Baku. Among the main lines of coverage was the
oil and gas rush on the Caspian Sea.

1992-2000 Central Asia-Caucasus correspondent,

Contract writer for Newsweek and The New York Times
Covered the first years of the Caspian Sea oil and gas rush. With Jo
Burns, wrote a page-one investigation of the origins of the Taliban.
piece was part of a package of stories awarded the 1997 Pulitzer Pri
International Reporting. In 1999, broke the story (in The Times) of t
hidden wealth of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, fed b
payments from U.S. oil companies. In 1993, with Steve Coll, wrote
the first accounts of the global reach of Islamic militants.
1989-December 1991 Afghanistan-Pakistan correspondent
Contract writer for Newsweek.
In 1991, wrote one of the first full accounts of the Afghan Arabs,
precursors to al Qaeda.

1985-December 1988 Philippines correspondent for Newsday and the Chicago Tribune.
Resident in Manila.

1981-November 1985 Correspondent of The Associated Press, Charleston, W.Va.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism (1980) from

California State University (Fresno).

Master of Science from the Columbia

University School of Journalism (1981).

Middlebury College Russian School (1996)

Summer Intensive Program.

Grants, Awards

2009 Gold Award

American Society of Business Publicans Editors
For ”Can Big Money Prizes Save Innovation,” an
examination of the X Prize Foundation

Top Ten Book of 2007

BusinessWeek
For The Oil and the Glory

$110,000 grant in 2003

The Smith-Richardson Foundation
To write The Oil and the Glory

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies

1999 grant to research The Oil and the Glory