Managing director and senior analyst, North Africa
John is an experienced analyst on North Africa’s energy markets. He plays an active role in African Energy’s business development, ensuring clients are provided with high-quality quantitative and qualitative research.
John has worked in every part of African Energy’s business. As contributing editor on North Africa with a special focus on Egypt and Libya, he oversees an important part of the newsletter’s analysis of energy markets in the region.
For the past 17 years, he has reported in detail and in depth on Libya's energy sector including all aspects of the oil, gas and electric power sectors. From 2007 until the fall of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's Jamahiriyah system in 2011, he was one of the few international journalists regularly travelling to Libya. Since the revolution, he has continued to follow the developments in the sector with regular incisive reports.
He also built and continues to oversee the quality of the region’s project listings on the African Energy Live Data platform.
John is active in research and investigations, writing, editing and managing strategic advisory, energy consultancy, and regular monitoring projects for individual clients.
More broadly, he uses his experience to maintain quality in the company’s output, setting up and contributing to its in-house training programme.
He speaks, reads and writes standard Arabic.
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