Luke Patey
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@LukePatey
Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Lead
Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford.
From Africa, Latin America, East Asia, to Europe, Patey has over a decade of on-the-ground
experience following the economic and political impact of China’s rise.
He is author of
The
New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South
Sudan
(Hurst/Harper Collins, 2014), short-listed for the Africa-Asia Book Prize, and reviewed
in
The Economist, The Wall Street Journal,
and
Business Standard.
Patey’s work mixes
deep reportage with nuanced political and business analysis. He has a
track record in presenting complex subjects to non-specialist audiences in opinion writing for
the
Financial Times, The Guardian, The Hindu, VICE News,
and through investigative
reporting for outlets such as
Foreign Affairs
and
Foreign Policy.
His commentary has
appeared in print with
The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times,
as
well as on radio and television with the
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, BBC World
Service, Radio France, Al Jazeera, and China Central Television (CCTV).
Patey has private sector experience with
Siemens
and with international organizations,
including the
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD). He has been
a visiting
scholar at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationals (Paris), Peking Uni-
versity (Beijing), the Social Science Research Council (New York), and the Centre for Policy
Research at UN University (Tokyo). Patey holds a PhD from the Copenhagen Business School.
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