Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh is an international oil economist. He is also a visiting professor of energy economics at the ESCP Europe Business School in London. Dr Salameh holds a PhD in Economics specialising in the economics and geopolitics of oil and energy.

Dr Salameh has presented papers to numerous international energy conferences on the economics and geopolitics of oil and energy and has been frequently invited to lecture on these topics at universities around the world.

He has written three books on oil: Is a Third Oil Crisis Inevitable? (published in London in April 1990); Jordan’s Energy Prospects & Needs to the Year 2010: The Economic Viability of Extracting Oil from Shale” (published in London in October 1998); and Over a Barrel (published in the UK in June 2004), as well as numerous research papers published in international Oil and Energy Journals.

Dr Salameh has undertaken research assignments for the US Department of Energy, the Institute of Energy Economics in Japan, the Indian Government, OPEC, the Canadian Energy Research Institute, Boston University, working on the Encyclopedia of Energy and also the Handbook of Energy, and the government of Jordan among others.  He regularly appears on television to discuss oil prices and other developments in the global oil market.

Dr Salameh is a member of many International Institutes and Associations including the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) in the US, the British Institute of Energy Economics, the International Energy Foundation in Canada and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.