Skills/Experience

Dr Philip Andrews-Speed is an independent energy policy analyst affiliated to the University of Westminster. Until 2010, he was Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, at the University of Dundee. He spent fourteen years as a geologist in the international mining and petroleum industries before coming to the Centre in 1994, gaining an LLM in Energy Law and Policy, and joining the academic staff. He leads the Centre’s China Programme. The focus of the research is on energy policy, regulation and reform, and on the interface between energy policy and international relations.

Publications include: The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Needs (Adelphi Paper 346, 2002) and Energy Policy and Regulation in the People’s Republic of China (Kluwer Law International, 2004). His latest book, with Roland Dannreuther, entitled China, Oil and Global Politics, will be published in April 2011. He is currently working on a further book entitled The Governance of Energy in China: Implications for Sustainable Development.

Recently he has began to examine global challenges relating to energy and mineral resources and to the process of policy-making in these sectors.  April 2008 saw the publication of International Competition for Resources: the Role of Law, the State and of Markets. The POLINARES project provides an excellent opportunity to explore these issues in greater depth.

Role in the Project

POLINARES Project Coordinator