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CEPMLP
The University of Dundee
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Dundee DD1 4HN
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John Mitchell is an Associate Research fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London, and Research Adviser at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. In November 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award for research from King Abdullah at the opening of the 3rd OPEC Summit in Riyadh.
Mitchell has written three books, published by Chatham House/Earthscan:
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The New Economy of Oil, 2001;
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Companies in a World of Conflict (editor), 1998;
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The New Geopolitics of Energy 1996.
He was a contributor to Oil Titans by Valérie Marcel (Brookings/Chatham House, 2006), and has written numerous reports, briefing papers, and journal articles including -
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Oil for Asia (with Glada Lahn)(Chatham House Briefing Paper, April 2007);
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New Era for Oil Prices (Chatham House Report, August 2006);
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L'autre face de la dépendance énergétique (in Politique Étrangére,2:2006, IFRI);
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Producer-Consumer Dialogue (Chatham House Report, Nov. 2005)
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Energy Investment, Quantity or Quality (in Asia Pacific Review11:1, 2004);
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A New Political Economy of Oil (in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance :42 2002)
Mitchell retired in 1993 from British Petroleum where his posts included Special Adviser to the Managing Directors, Regional Co-ordinator for BP's subsidiaries in the Western Hemisphere, and head of BP's Policy Review Unit. In 1976 he was an academic visitor in the faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge.
Before joining BP in 1966 Mitchell worked for ten years in government service in central Africa, mainly on international trade, and was a delegate to GATT and the international Wheat and Sugar Agreements. He graduated with an M.A. of the University of Natal in 1955, and emigrated from South Africa in 1956.
He is an Honorary Fellow at CEPMLP.
