Kern has been a featured speaker on Middle East energy matters at numerous industry conferences in Washington, D.C., London, Riyadh, New York City, Calgary, Dallas, Houston, and Tokyo.
He has been featured on many U.S. and Arab news broadcasting channels, interviewed by both international and national newspapers, and has written for a variety of political and oil industry publications.
[3] He has written extensively for a variety of publications on the future of Iraqi oil production following the invasion of Kuwait, correctly anticipating that Saddam would remain in power and that sanctions would continue for more than a decade thereafter.
[citation needed] Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq he provided detailed analysis of the difficulties the U.S. would face in the post-invasion phase and of the dire state of the Iraqi oil industry, while his firm pinpointed the consequences of major decisions made by the Coalition Provisional Authority, which are now, but were not at the time, credited with contributing to the failure to achieve post-war stability.
In the early 1990s, he assisted U.S. companies in settling contractual disputes with the Saudi Government, including Westinghouse’s claims on Gas Turbine power plants in Ha'il and Qassim.