Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff
Research Fellow

Dr Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Senior Associate Member at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Dr Yenikeyeff holds a first class degree with honours in law from the Bashkir State University, Russia, and an MPhil and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. In the 1990s he worked in the Russian parliament as an adviser to the Chairman of the subcommittee for the organisation of the state authority system in Russia. He has also been involved with a number of consulting companies specialising in the Russian oil industry and regional development. His current research focuses on the political economy of the oil and gas sectors of Russia and Kazakhstan with emphasis on economic policies, state-business relations, corporate strategies, political and economic risks. Dr Yenikeyeff writes and presents on Russian-European energy relations, Russia and OPEC, Caspian and Central Asian energy issues, and the development of Arctic hydrocarbons.   His publications have appeared in a number of industry and academic journals. Amongst the latest of these is an article Energy Interests of the 'Great Powers' in Central Asia: Cooperation or Conflict?, (International Spectator, Vol. 46, No. 3, September 2011) as well as a study on natural resource management in Russia (co-authored with Valery Kryukov and Anatoly Tokarev) which will be published in an upcoming OIES monograph and featured as a chapter in Paul Collier and Tony Venables (eds.), Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Dr Yenikeyeff is also the author of The Battle for Russian Oil: Corporations, Regions, and the State, a forthcoming book on the politics of the Russian oil sector under Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He runs the Geopolitics of Energy lecture series under the joint auspices of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

Kazakhstan's Gas Sector, in S. Pirani (ed.), Russian and CIS Gas Markets and Their Impact on Europe, Oxford University Press, 2009.