China’s government has taken a number of steps to reform its energy sector, diversify the number of actors and increase the role of market forces. However, the state retains a dominant position in the sector and so the impact of the reforms is likely to be less than hoped.
Philip Andrews-Speed has been a Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute (ESI) of the National University of Singapore since 2012. Until 2010 he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. From 2010 to 2012 he led a major European Union, Framework 7 Programme project “Competition and Collaboration in Access to Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources”. He was a Fellow of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund of the United Sates in Washington DC during the academic year 2011/12.