Paul Martin

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Paul Martin is a former diplomat, and now commercial gas market analyst, with high-level experience advising government and business on political, economic and security issues in Russia, Ukraine and post-Soviet states, and their relations with both China and the EU. 

Posted to Moscow before, during and after the escalation of conflict in Ukraine, his specialties include the Russian energy sector and its ties to regional geostrategy; the US and EU sanctions regimes; the political economy of Russia and the region; and economic and policy linkages between Russia, the West and China. Also a former commercial lawyer with financial markets experience, he speaks fluent Russian.