Dr Keun-Wook Paik
Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources
Expertise
- Natural gas in Northeast Asia, in particular in China
- Sino-Russian oil and gas cooperations
- Pipeline politics and economics
- DPRK energy issue, in particular oil development
- China's global oil and gas expansion strategy
Projects
- Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: Half-empty or Half-full?
Recent Publications
- Through the Dragon Gate? A Window of Opportunity for Northeast Asian Gas Security, Briefing Paper, December 2012
- Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: Half-empty or Half-full? (2010, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
- 'Natural Gas in Korea' in Jonathan Stern, ed., Natural Gas in Asia: The Challenges of Growth in China, India, Japan and Korea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 174-219
- 'Russia's Oil and Gas Exports to North East Asia', with Glada Lahn, Chatham House Report, May 2005
- 'Pipeline Gas Introduction to the Korean Peninsula', Chatham House Report, Jan 2005
- 'The Implications of China's Gas Expansion towards Natural Gas Market in Asia', Feb 2004
- 'Natural Gas Expansion in Korea', in Ian Wybrew-Bond and Jonathan Stern, ed., Natural Gas in Asia: The Challenges of Growth in China, India, Japan and Korea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 188-229
- 'Energy Developments in Northeast Asia: Unfulfilled Potential' (Surrey: Curzon: 2001), pp. 166-181
- 'China Natural Gas Report', a joint publication of Xinhua News Agency and RIIA, 1998
- 'Gas and Oil in Northeast Asia: Policies, Projects and Prospects' (RIIA, 1995)
Experience
| 2007- |
Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
| 2006 |
Consultant to UNDP GTI Energy Board (and Expert Council) |
| 2003-05 |
Member of UN's DPRK Energy Study Group |
| 2000-02 |
Advisor to Chairman of the Government, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation |
| 1998-99 |
Advisor, Sino-Russia Oil and Gas Committee, CNPC |
| 1996-98 |
Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Energy and Environment Programme, Chatham House |
| 1997 |
Honorary Research Fellow, Dept of Economics, University of Aberdeen |
| 1994-95 |
Research Associate, Aberdeen University Petroleum Economic Consultants |
| 1989-93 |
Ph.d at the University of Aberdeen |
Broadcast Experience
Some
Languages
Korean, Chinese & Japanese