Lecturer About Donnan Steele Donnan is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Phoenician Resources Funds I, II, and III. He also serves Chairman of Daylight Petroleum. Prior to founding Phoenician, Donnan was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company, the global consultancy, where he was a leader in the Global Energy and Materials practice and was a founding member of the Corporate Risk practice. He served leading oil and gas focused Private Equity funds from strategy to deal execution and advised in several of the largest corporate M&A transactions in the energy sector. He sits on the advisory board of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy where he developed and teaches a graduate course on energy economics and policy. Donnan received a B.S. in physics and computer science from Yale, a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at M.I.T., and a certificate in financial technology from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Business. Contact Information hds1@uchicago.edu Recent News More news Student Profile: Namuka Ishii, MPP Class of 2024 Thu., May 02, 2024 Student Profile: Carrie Collins, MPP Class of 2024 Tue., April 30, 2024 Alumni Profile: Eloísa Ávila-Uribe, MACRM’23 Fri., April 26, 2024 Upcoming Events More events Data and Policy Summer Scholars Program (DPSS): Deep-Dive Conversation with Jose Macias and Alexandra Sobczynski Mon., May 06, 2024 | 7:30 PM International Policy Action Lab Mini Class with Austin Wright Tue., May 07, 2024 | 6:00 AM Driving Policy Innovation in the Social Sector in India: Lunch Conversation with Luis Miranda Tue., May 07, 2024 | 12:30 PM Harris School of Public Policy (The Keller Center), Room 2112 1307 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637 United States