Roger Boyd is a graduate of the Global Governance PhD program at the Balsillie School. His research is focused on the joint transitions of global power politics and the global energy system to low carbon sources, with specific focus on the interactions and dependencies of the two.

Prior to his doctoral studies he was an executive in the financial industry for 25 years, and authored a book exploring the links between energy and the financial system. More recently his research focus has moved toward the integration of great power politics, elites and energy, both in non-fiction and fiction. He is currently working on a book with the working title of “The Mackinder Nightmare: The Safe Asian Space” (non fiction) and another “The End of the Beginning” (fiction, about a climate emergency).