Charles Emmerson is senior research fellow for the area of energy, environment and resources at Chatham House, UK. His area of expertise include geopolitics and geo-economics of natural resources, arctic politics and economics (energy, climate, shipping), global risk and interdependency, climate security, and diasporas and foreign policy. His recent publication include Inside Out the Emerging Geopolitics of a Changing Arctic, Baltic Rim Economies, November 2011, and Russia's Arctic Opening, Foreign Policy, March 2011. He also contributed to the Global Risk Reports of the World Economic Forum, 2006 to 2008 and 2011, as well as to the WEF's Sustainable Consumption Reports in 2010 and 2011. Mr. Emmerson has written articles for the Financial Times, Monocle, The Huffington Post and other media outlets and is a frequent broadcaster. Additionally, he is also a freelance consultant on geopolitics, risk and sustainability. Mr. Emmerson was a fellow of the World Economic Forum and later associate director and head of Global Risks at the Forum. Between 2003 and 2005, he has been researcher at the International Crisis Group.