John Mitchell
Senior Research Adviser

John Mitchell is an Associate Research Fellow at Chatham House, Research Adviser at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, and Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee. In November 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award for research from King Abdullah at the opening of the 3rd OPEC Summit in Riyadh. He 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. Mitchell has written three books: The New Economy of Oil (2001), Companies in a World of Conflict (editor, 1998) both published by Chatham House/Earthscan; and The New Geopolitics of Energy (Chatham House 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 More for Asia: Rebalancing Global Oil And Gas (Chatham House 2010).