Hal is an International Relations graduate from the University of Leicester and is now an analyst for the Atlas Institute. Currently specialising in the geopolitics of critical minerals and the political risk of the green transition. Focusing on power dynamics, foreign investment and economic futures primarily across central Africa.
Cobalt Competition: How America’s Retreat is Rewriting Central Africa’s Critical Mineral Future
A Shifting World for Critical Minerals For much of the last century, Africa’s vast resource wealth was a battleground for foreign powers. Today, cobalt, the metal essential for batteries and…