John V. Mitchell is an Associate Research Fellow at Chatham House, a Research Adviser at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, and member of Advisory Board, Energy Intelligence GroupIn November 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award for research from King Abdullah at the opening of the 3rd OPEC Summit in Riyadh. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.He retired in 1993 from British Petroleum where his posts included Special Adviser to the Managing Directors, Regional Co-ordinator for BP’s subsidiaries in the Western Hemisphere, and head of BP’s Policy Review Unit. Before joining BP in 1966 he spent ten years in the Governments of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia, working on GATT and commodity agreements.
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