career in 1991, she was associate professor of government, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and served as the director of the policy analysis and planning division of the Center for Energy Studies. Brossard Petroleum Consultants With her expertise in the Venezuelan oil industry, Brossard formed the Houston-based Brossard Petroleum Consultants, a firm that advised the Venezuelan petroleum industry. Brossard's opinions on events in the oil industry, particularly those involving Venezuela, were often quoted in the media. Criticism of Chavez over oil industry Brossard was an early critic of the oil policies of the president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez and its management of PDVSA. Often writing in Spanish, she argued that President Chavez was destroying the Venezuelan oil industry. Brossard stated in 2005, "Venezuelan oil fields had a depletion rate of 25 per cent annually [and] there had to be an investment of US$3.4 billion a year to keep up its production." "But since Chavez has become president there has been no investment." Brossard further commented that corruption was "phenomenal" in Venezuela, as Chavez and his government spent millions on themselves and thousands of businesses have been closed down. Death and legacy Brossard died on November 15, 2007 in North Palm Beach, Florida and was buried in her family's cemetery plot at St. Jerome's Catholic Cemetery, in Columbus, Wisconsin. She was recognized as an "authority on the international oil trade." Books E.B. Brossard (1983). Petroleum--Politics and Power. PennWell Books, 254 pp. . E.B. Brossard (1993). Petroleum research and Venezuela's INTEVEP: The Clash of the Giants. PennWell Books/INTEVEP, 211 pp. . E.B. Brossard (1994). (in Spanish) Ruta Y Destino De La Investigacion Petrolera En Venezuela. INTEVEP, 314 pp. . E.B. Brossard (2001). Power and Petroleum, Venezuela, Cuba and Colombia: A Troika? BookMasters, Inc., 254 pp. References External links E.B. Brossard's papers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1928 births 2007 deaths Hillsdale College alumni Louisiana State University faculty People from San Juan, Puerto Rico University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni American people of Venezuelan descent American people of Danish descent American emigrants to Venezuela St. Norbert College faculty American women academics 20th-century American women 20th-century American people