DINARA MILLINGTON joined the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) in February 2004and assumed her current role as a Vice President, Research in April 2014.Dinara is responsible for managing the Institute’s research agenda includingleading the oil sands projects, assisting in the production of market research,economic analysis and economic modeling. Ms. Millington has participated invarious projects involving oil sands, crude oil, natural gas, LNG, andrenewable energy. Dinara is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Institute'sCommodity Reports on crude oil and natural gas and provides economic commentaryfor CBC, Global TV, The Globe and Mail, the BNN and other local, national andinternational news outlets Dinara graduated with a Masters of Arts degree inEconomics from the University of Calgary, specializing in Econometrics andTime-series Analysis. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economicswith minor in Finance. Ms. Millington spent some time studying at MasarykovUniversity in Brno, Czech Republic, as well as worked and lived abroad in Kazakhstan.