Formerly a specialist energy writer with the Financial Times newspaper, Mark Newham's journalism career stretches back to the days of hot metal presses and telex machines. Forty years in which he's specialised in energy, the environment and the developing world, his reports appearing regularly in national and international publications worldwide. Newham has also acted as a media consultant to various agencies of the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. His current primary focus is on applying experience built up in the fields of energy, the environment and world affairs to the production of books closely associated with these areas of interest.