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12 February 2008
Harvard CES Berlin and GPPi co-organize session on "The New scramble for Africa”
The Harvard Center for European Studies (CES) Berlin and the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin co-organized a session on the politics of oil in Africa as part of the Harvard CES Berlin Dialogues series and GPPi’s newly launched global energy governance research program “Changing Rules of the Game: Global Energy Governance in the 21st century”. The session, entitled "The New Scramble for Africa: Oil, Geopolitics, and the Quest for Development Dividend" took place at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin on Monday, 11 February 2008.
The 100 strong audience included experts such as Peter Eigen, Chairman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Nicholas Shaxson, associate fellow at Chatham House and author of "Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil”
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University Lecturer in African Politics, Oxford University and a GPPi Fellow presented the main results of his recently published book Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea. Michael Peel, the Financial Times’ Legal Correspondent and until 2006 the FT's West Africa correspondent focusing on the many problems of bad governance and corruption in Africa's oil sector, commented on the presentation. The event was chaireded by GPPi Associate Director Thorsten Benner.
For more information please contact Thorsten Benner.