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Luke Patey's research focuses on geoeconomics and industrial competitiveness in green and digital technologies. He is author of How China Loses: The Pushback Against China’s 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 work has been published in The Wire China, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Hindu, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. He was formerly Lead Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford. He has been a vis­it­ing scholar at the United Nations University (Tokyo), the Social Sci­ence Research Coun­cil (New York), Peking Uni­ver­sity (Bei­jing), and Centre d'études et de recherches internationals (Paris). Patey holds a PhD from the Copenhagen Business School.