Nelson Oppong is a lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, whose research interests are devoted to the politics of natural resources, institutional reform, state building, clean energy transitions, and related global processes in low-income countries. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Review of African Political Economy and Critical African Studies and served as a guest editor for the Extractive Industries and Society journal, where he completed a special issue 'Governing African oil and gas: Boom-era political and institutional innovation' which compiled emerging research and conceptual debates about the politics of reform in over ten oil-rich countries across Africa. His research has also appeared in leading academic journals like Globalisation, current History, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, the Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Contemporary Social Sciences, Oxford Development Studies, along with contributions to various edited volumes across the social sciences.