Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He is author of ‘How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions’ (Oxford University Press, 2021) and ‘The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan’ (Hurst, 2014). His articles have appeared in the Wire China, the New York Times, Finan­cial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Hindu, and VICE News.

Patey has been a vis­it­ing scholar at the United Nations University (Tokyo), Centre d’études et de recherches internationals (Paris), Peking Uni­ver­sity (Bei­jing), and the Social Sci­ence Research Coun­cil (New York). He holds a BSc (Hons.) in commerce from Queen’s University (Kingston) and a MSc and PhD from the Copenhagen Business School. Previously, he was lead senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford.