Simon Pirani is a Senior Research Fellow on the Natural Gas Research Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and co-editor of The Russian Gas Matrix: How Markets are Driving Change (Oxford University Press, 2014). His numerous books and papers on natural gas issues include Ukraine’s Gas Sector (OIES, 2007), The Russo-Ukrainian Gas Dispute of 2009 (OIES, 2009) and What the Ukraine Crisis Means For Gas Markets (OIES, 2014). Before joining the Institute in 2007, Dr Pirani wrote about energy and the economy of former Soviet countries as a journalist and historian.