Dr Val&eacute;rie Marcel is the project lead for the New Producers Group, a South-South knowledge-sharing network of 30 emerging oil and gas producer countries. She is an established expert on national oil companies, petroleum-sector governance and emerging strategic issues shaping the energy sector.</p>

<p>She is the author of Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East (Chatham House/Brookings, 2006). Recent publications include Fostering Resilience in Emerging Oil Producers in 2020 and The Cost of An Emerging National Oil Company, the most read Chatham House publication in 2016, with 41,000 downloads.</p>
