With forty years’ background in economics in Africa and the developing world, including 30 years within the world exploration industry, Duncan Clarke is a leading thinker, strategist, speaker and writer on economics, geopolitics and oil/energy in Africa, as well as on corporate strategy for the world upstream industry.

Founder of Global Pacific & Partners, an advisory firm in Africa, and an Advisor to numerous Governments, Companies in Africa, National Oil Companies, Licensing Agencies, Multilateral and Financial Institutions, he conducts annual Strategy Briefings on Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast, and on the world oil future.

Books include Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny (Profile Books, London, 2012), Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile, 2010 – with TV-Film/Documentary by CNBC-Africa), Empires of Oil (Profile, 2007), and The Battle For Barrels (Profile, 2007).

Born Zimbabwe, based Johannesburg, B.Comm (Hons) Economics, Rhodes University (South Africa, 1969); Ph.D (Economics), University of St. Andrews (Scotland, 1975).