Adrian Duhalt, Ph.D., is a research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is also a nonresident scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at the Baker Institute.

His professional and research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and development and policy issues concerning the energy sector in Mexico, North America, and Latin America. He has led research projects focusing on natural gas and petrochemicals and published articles and reports on topics including the ammonia-fertilizer value chain, the liberalization of the energy sector in Mexico, social conflict in energy infrastructure projects, and national oil companies. 

Prior to joining Columbia University’s CGEP, Adrián was postdoctoral fellow in energy studies for the Center for the U.S. and Mexico and the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute. From 2013 to 2017, he was an associate professor at the School of Business and Economics at Mexico’s Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), where he chaired the Department of International Business in 2015 and 2016. In 2014, he was the first Puentes Consortium Visiting Scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico.  

Duhalt received a Ph.D. in economic geography at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom in 2012.

Contact him at ad4071@columbia.edu or 917-581-0071.