Robin Mills

Robin, Non-Resident Fellow for Energy at the Brookings Doha Center, and CEO of Qamar Energy (Dubai), is an expert on Middle East energy strategy and economics. He is the author of two books, The Myth of the Oil Crisis and Capturing Carbon, columnist on energy and environmental issues at The National, and comments widely on energy issues in the media, including the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Atlantic, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg and others. He worked for a decade for Shell, concentrating on new business development in the Middle East, followed by six years with Dubai Holding and the Emirates National Oil Company.

He holds a first-class degree in Geology from the University of Cambridge, and speaks five languages including Arabic and Farsi.

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