Experience

Center on Global Energy Policy

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Scholar

  • Nov 2022 - Present



Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non-resident Scholar at the Center for the US and Mexico

  • May 2022 - Present

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Energy Studies

  • May 2017 - Apr 2022

  Adrian Duhalt, Ph.D., is the postdoctoral fellow in Mexico energy studies for the Center for Energy Studies and the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at the Baker Institute.

• Nonresident Scholar

  • Sep 2014 - May 2017

  Adrian Duhalt, Ph.D., is a nonresident scholar for the Baker Institute Mexico Center. He is also an associate professor at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), where his teaching focuses on economic geography, corporate strategy and energy issues in North America. His main research at the Mexico Center is related to energy dynamics in North America (shale gas development in the United States and Mexico’s energy reform) and their effect on petrochemical value chains, agricultural productivity and food dependency in Mexico. Duhalt has spoken about energy issues at various conferences and events in the U.S., Mexico, England, Switzerland, Wales and Panama. Prior to joining UDLAP in 2013, he completed his Ph.D. in economic geography at the University of Sussex. His thesis analyzes the main political economy drivers that shaped the development of the petrochemical industry in Mexico over the last few decades. For his conceptual and empirical contributions, he received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Economic Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers in 2012. Show less



UDLAP

• Mexico
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2019

  At UDLAP, I teach Economic Geography to undergraduate students and Corporate Strategy and Energy Issues in North America to students enrolled in the MBA.Research interests: energy, value chains, petrochemicals, political economy

• Chair, Department of International Business

  • 2015 - 2016



Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Research Scholar

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2014



University of Sussex

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Tutor (Political Economy of Development)

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2012

  I led seminars in which discussions centre around development issues in the Global South - climate change, poverty and inequality, democracy and human rights, corruption, trade, industrial and private sector development.

• Doctoral Researcher

  • Oct 2006 - Jul 2012

  My PhD thesis combines analysis of the political economy of Mexico with the global value chain approach to examine i) how the development path Mexico has followed in recent decades has shaped the trajectory of the petrochemical industry and ii) the type of governance structures prevailing in transactional relationships between state-owned (PEMEX) and private petrochemical firms in the Veracruz cluster. The discussion is situated in a wider empirical context that pays considerable attention to economic, political, and institutional factors (e.g. the economic liberalisation process embarked on by Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s, the institutionalisation of sectoral regulatory policies, the reliance of the government on oil revenues, the implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the U.S. energy security strategy) that help us understand the current standing of the petrochemical industry and the quality of inter-firm linkages in the locality. My research interests focus on value chain analysis, geographical political economy, emerging multinationals from emerging economies, the political economy of oil and natural gas, industrial governance.You can get my PhD thesis from: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/7600/ Show less



CIESAS Golfo

• Xalapa, Mexico

• Research Assistant at the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS)

  • Jun 2002 - May 2005

  I participated in research projects focusing on a wide range of topics such as international migration, labour trajectories, poverty, and local economic development. Duties: fieldwork, analysis of data and report writing, sample design. In addition to being research assistant, I also completed my bachelor dissertation under the supervision of the CIESAS-Golfo director at that time. My research focused on examining the determinants and consequences of the crisis the pinneaple industry in Mexico experienced in 2000 and 2001. This entailed to live and conduct fieldwork in the most important producing area of the country for a period of six months. Show less