Andreas Goldthau is a professor at Royal Holloway University of London. He is also an associate with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a fellow at King's College's Russia Institute.
Prior to joining Royal Holloway, Andreas worked as a professor at the School of Public Policy at Central European University, as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's MSc program in energy policy and climate, and as a Transatlantic Postdoc Fellow in International Relations and Security with the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation, and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Additionally, he was a research fellow with the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University in Berlin, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar with the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and Robert Bosch visiting lecturer at the Tyumen State University in Russia.
Andreas’s academic interests revolve around energy security and global governance issues related to oil and gas. Recent publications include Energy Union. Europe's new Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave 2016), A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The EU Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (Oxford, 2015), and The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He serves on the editorial board of Global Policy, Energy Policy, and Energy Research in Social Science. He is the co-editor of Progressive Energy Policy Pivots for Palgrave Macmillan and sits on the steering committees of leading academic associations, including the ECPR’s Standing Group on Regulation and Governance.
Andreas holds a joint master’s degree in political science from Sciences Po and the Free University, a state certificate in Russian language from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and a PhD from the Freie University. He has held scholarships from the European Commission, the Fulbright Commission, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the Otto Group. He is a member of the German-Russian Forum and the Tönissteiner Kreis.