Neil Ford is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He is a freelance consultant and journalist specializing in African affairs and the global energy sector. His main areas of interest include African development, regional integration, boundary disputes, the energy transition, and African logistics. He produces reports for a range of organizations, including law firms, energy consultancies, and financial platforms.

With over twenty-five years’ experience as a journalist, he has worked for dozens of outlets, including African Business, the BBC, Platts, Jane’s, and Reuters, for whom he also writes renewable energy and energy transition white papers. After earning a BA in history and geography at Sunderland University and an MSc in African history at the University of Edinburgh, he completed a PhD at Edinburgh. His dissertation on the creation of Tanzania’s international boundaries involved research in twelve countries, including much of East Africa. He was previously deputy editor of Charity Finance magazine and a senior analyst at World Markets Research Centre.