I am a Research Fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy at the University of Warwick, and a member of the UK Energy Research Centre.

I am interested in the theory, history and practices of world politics. My current research centres on energy security — on its emergence and development as a discourse and purpose of government, on how it will figure and change in the global transition to net zero, and on its concrete prospects in the present-day United Kingdom.

I was formerly Research Director of a small green finance thinktank, where I wrote about the contradictions of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, and private finance initiatives to buyout and retire coal plants in South-East Asia. This work has been drawn on by organisations like IRENA, Greenpeace, ShareAction, and Fair Finance Asia.

I have an MPhil in history from Cambridge, and a PhD in international relations from Edinburgh.

Feel free to reach out to me at louis.fletcher [at] wbs.ac.uk