Peter Middlebrook
| Peter J. Middlebrook | |
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| Born |
15 November 1965 Lincoln, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | English |
| Institution | |
| Field | Development Economics, Political Science, Emerging Markets, ethics |
| Alma mater |
Durham University (D. Phil) University of Northumbria (BSc) First Class Honours |
| Influences | |
| Contributions | Human development theory, Development Economics, Political Science |
Peter J. Middlebrook (D.Phil.) (born 15 November 1965, in Lincoln, England) is an English development economist, Political Scientist, businessman and philanthropist. He is the CEO of Geopolicity Inc., as well as Chairman of a number of other companies. He specializes in Emerging Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia and Horn of Africa and is a keen observer on issues related to globalization. He is best known for his work as an economic, security and political adviser to multilateral and bilateral organizations including the World Bank, European Union, United Nations and Government of the United Kingdom as well as global corporations covering energy, infrastructure, mining and water. He maintains a particular focus on investment finance and the privatization and transformation of national economies and productive infrastructure and other public goods, including energy markets. He originated the concept and framework for right-financing as a practical tool to guide both private and public investment. Middlebrook currently resides in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Middlebrook spent his childhood in the United Kingdom, but left home at the age of sixteen to travel, hitchhiking overland from England to India and then onwards to China, where he took the Trans-Siberian Railway through Russia, before again hitchhiking the following year through the Sahara Desert into West Africa, with further trips to South America. By the age of twenty-three he had travelled to more than 60 countries. Upon returning to the UK, and heavily influenced by Project Tiger in India where he had worked for some time during his early travels, he undertook a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle on Environmental Management, eventually receiving a First Class (Hons) in 1993. Interested in geopolitics and development economics, and under the Professorship of the renowned Geopolitical specialist Ewan Anderson, in 2002 he completed a PhD from the University of Durham Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies UK on Public policy and Poverty, looking at employment and growth economics in Ethiopia and India.
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