Dr Sam Geall

Associate Fellow, Environment and Society Centre

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Biography

Dr Sam Geall is associate fellow at the Chatham House Environment and Society Centre, Honorary Researcher at the Lancaster University China Centre, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. His work focuses on the intersection of statecraft, energy, and climate politics, with a special focus on China. 

He is former CEO of Dialogue Earth (previously known as China Dialogue). He has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester, a BA in Modern Chinese Studies from University of Leeds, and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. He was previously Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow in Low-Carbon Innovation in China at University of Sussex. 

Past experience

2013 -Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
2012 -Executive Editor, chinadialogue.net
2012-13Departmental Lecturer, Human Geography of China, Oxford University