Critical Raw Materials
Jojo Nem SinghThe newsletter of the Critical Raw Materials (CRM) Policy Lab. Research-based analysis of the politics, economics and geopolitics of the minerals behind the energy transition.
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What Five Years of Research Taught me about the Critical Minerals Race
Discussing the return of industrial policy with colleagues at the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, March 2024.
Tomorrow my European Research Council project, Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals (GRIP-ARM), formally comes t...
Why a Policy Lab
I was presenting our research findings in front of Chinese local representatives, industry players, and international participants from Central Asia. Tsinghua University, Beijing, 28 August 2026.
Earlier this year I was in Manila, sitting...
What will the Critical Minerals Boom Do to Latin America?
The green transition has an uneven geography, and their profound consequences are being experienced outside the policy corridors of Brussels and Washington. The water quality erosion or road blockades can be observed in the distant salt fla...
Nickel, Oligarchs, and the State
At the Consortium on Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference held in Singapore, July 8-10, 2026. Our paper was presented in the panel “The Geopolitics of Building Regional Supply Chains in Southeast Asia in the Age of Strategic Competiti...
The Distance Between the Strategy Document and the Smelter
Public Roundtable on the Global Landscape of Critical Minerals Governance, where we focussed our discussion on supply chains restructuring, how the US and China are changing their critical minerals plans, and their wider implications for in...
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Political economist working on critical minerals, industrial policy and state-owned enterprises. Author of Business of the State (OUP, 2024). Fieldwork across Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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