Robin M. Mills CEO, Qamar Energy

Robin M. Mills is CEO of Qamar Energy, which he founded in 2015 to provide regionally based energy insight and project delivery in the Middle East. An expert on energy strategy and economics, he has been described by Foreign Policy as “one of the energy world’s great minds.” He previously led major consulting assignments for the EU in Iraq and advised international energy companies on Middle East business development. Earlier, he spent a decade at Shell focused on new business development in the Middle East, followed by six years with Dubai Holding and the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC). He is a Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a Senior Fellow of the Iraq Energy Institute, and was previously Non-Resident Fellow for Energy at the Brookings Institution. He writes columns on energy and the environment for The National and Bloomberg, and is the author of 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.