The Opportunity for Africa presented by the Scramble for Critical Minerals
December 18, 2025
Director, Centre for the study of African economies, Oxford University
Professor, Blavatnik School of Government
Senior Fellow, FERDI
He is also a Senior Fellow at FERDI.
His researches focus on governance in low-income countries, especially the political economy of democracy, economic growth in Africa, economics of civil war, aid, globalisation and poverty.
He published The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature (2010), Wars, Guns and Votes : Democracy in Dangerous Places (2009) and The Bottom Billion (2008), Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize.
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