Robin Mills

Robin Mills established Qamar Energy in 2015 to meet the need for regionally-based Middle East energy insight and project delivery. Before this, he led major consulting assignments for the EU in Iraq, and a variety of international energy companies on Middle East business development. Robin worked for a decade for Shell, concentrating on new business development in the Middle East. He subsequently worked for six years with Dubai Holding and the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), where he advanced business development efforts in the Middle East energy sector. He is a Fellow at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy and a Senior Fellow of the Iraq Energy Institute, spent two years as the Non-Resident Fellow for Energy at the Brookings Institution, is a columnist on energy and environment at The National and Bloomberg, and the author of two books, The Myth of the Oil Crisis, and Capturing Carbon. He holds a first-class degree in Geology from the University of Cambridge and speaks five languages including Arabic.