Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme

Expertise

• National oil companies
• Petroleum sector governance
• Energy security and Middle East politics
• Oil markets - political stability in Middle Eastern producing states
• International energy issues

Projects

• National Oil Companies in the Middle East
• Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector
• Building Performance Incentives into Iraq's Draft Hydrocarbons Law
• Energy and Politics in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, UAE, Algeria, Iraq
• Investments Abroad of Asian National Oil Companies

Recent Publications

• "Key Issues for Rising National Oil Companies", KPMG International, 2008
• "Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector; The Chatham House Document", with G Lahn, J Mitchell, K Myers & P Stevens, Chatham House, London, April 2007
• "Report on Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector", with G Lahn, J Mitchell, K Myers & P Stevens, Chatham House, London, April 2007
• "Trends in Asian NOC Investment Abroad", with Keun Wook Paik, G Lahn, J Mitchell, E Adylov, Chatham House Working Background Paper, March 2007
• Oil Titans; National Oil Companies in the Middle East, Washington: Brookings Institution & Chatham House, 2006. Contribution from John Mitchell.
• "Iran, Its Neighbours and the Regional Crises", R Lowe & C Spencer (Eds), Middle East Programme Report, Chatham House, London, 2006
• "Searching for Common Ground", Fundamentals of the Global Oil and Gas Industry; World Petroleum Council Yearbook 2006, Petroleum Economist, London, September 2006.
• "Les enjeux du pétrole", in F Charillon & B Rougier (Eds): Afrique du Nord-Moyen-Orient; Le Moyen-Orient en crise, Coll. "Les Études de la Documentation française", December 2006.
• "Investment in Middle East Oil; Who Needs Whom?", Chatham House Report, February 2006

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