Digital Media
U.S. actions in Venezuela won’t have immediate impact on Canada, UWindsor expert says
Interview with Acton Clarkin for the CBC Windsor evening news, 6 January 2026
AEGT Podcast, Episode 8 – State-Subsidized Battery Plants
Interview for the AEGT Podcast on my project, State-Subsidized Battery Plants in the Copperbelt and Canada: A Step Toward Integrated Critical Minerals Value Chains? 4 December 2025.
BBC Focus on Africa with Audrey Brown
Interview for BBC’s Focus on Africa about Resource Nationalism with Audrey Brown, BBC World Service. 12 August 2019.
ELLA Learning Alliance – Challenges of Local Content Policies
Series of videos on oil & gas local content policy from the ELLA Learning Alliance (2016). Playlist of 16 helpful videos available here. For example, below I explain the challenges of designing and applying local content policies:
The Talkshop with Naledi Moleo: SAFM Interview
Radio interview about The Petro-Developmental State in Africa with Naledi Moleo on The Talkshop, SAfm (Johannesburg). 25 July 2016.
Panel on The Petro-Developmental State in Africa
Panel on The Petro-Developmental State in Africa and Avoiding the Resource Curse at the Africa Research Institute, London, 15 October 2015. Audio recording available below:
Global Local Content Summit 2015 Interview
Oil & Gas IQ – Interview at the Global Local Content Summit, 2015. Video available here
NPR Interview with Julia Simons – Oil Theft in Nigeria
Thanked by Julia Simon in her NPR story about Oil Theft in Nigeria. Listen to the story below:
York University – Excavating Development
York University, Department of Political Science Seminar Series, 2012-13, January 7, 2013.
- Thomas Chiasson-LeBel: Ecuador, Sumak Kawsay and class formation
- Jesse Ovadia: Angola, Nigeria, local content and state-led development in the Gulf of Guinea
- Adam Pearce: The Kua, forced removals and the weak foundations of the Botswana Developmental State
- Alex Caramento: Discussant
Introduction by Professor Richard Saunders. Department of Political Science