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Global and Local Governance in the Energy Sector: The Case of Oil and Mining

On February 4-5 2010, Professor Carbonnier held a closed, two-day expert workshop on “Global and Local Governance in the Energy Sector: the Case of Oil and Mining” with the participation of scholars from China, Europe, North and South America. The discussions focused on the ownership and property rights of natural resources, the legitimacy of extractive activities, the “resource-curse debate”, the management and allocation options of extractive revenues, as well as the incidence of climate change and the emergence of China as a key global player. Participants presented and discussed their draft papers, which will be published in a special thematic issue of the journal Global Governance.

  Professor Xu, in the petroleum industry since 1983, was the first director of Overseas Investment at China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and is Chief Professor of the Institute of Geopolitics and Energy Economics at the East China Normal University. He has been a lead expert for numerous reports and research. He authored the book "Petro-Dragon's Rise: What It Means for China and the World" (European Press, 2002).
 

Alain Labastie is Engineering Adviser, Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies, for Total. He began his career at Elf in 1976 and has held numerous positions in reservoir engineering and research and development. Mr Labastie also served on French and European Union committees which award public research funding.

SWISSAID is involved in development projects, tries to influence development policy, and disseminates information on poverty and underdevelopment. Lorenz Kummer is in charge of oil-related activities at Swissaid.

Professor Carbonnier, PhD in Economics, serves as Deputy Director of the Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding’s, and is editor-in-chief of the International Development Policy Series. He has over 20 years’ professional experience in the fields of international trade, development and humanitarian action.

 For more information on the public conference and the two-day expert workshop that followed, click here

 

The workshop report can be accessed here.