The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Dr. Helima Croft
is a Senior Strategist with the Business Intelligence Group at Lehman Brothers, where she is responsible for providing assessments for the Executive Committee on key geo‐political developments.
Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, is preparing for historic elections this year. Violence accompanying the pre
‐election cycle has had a large impact on Nigerian oil production and contributed to further volatility in the oil‐rich Niger Delta. Dr. Croft will discuss the effects of the April elections on Nigeria’s oil infrastructure. Her talk will also address how variables such as more sophisticated military groups and vengeful political candidates have increased instability in the pre‐election period and contributed to the precarious situation in their oil industry.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, she was the 2004
‐2005 Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Croft spent four years at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she was a senior Economic Analyst in the office of Asian Pacific, Latin American, and African Analysis. She focused on energy security, economic reform and corruption in West Africa and received five exceptional performance awards for her achievements. She previously was a lecturer at Princeton University, where she received her Ph.D in Economic History in 2001. Dr. Croft was a member of the recent
