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Andrew Perchard is Honorary Research Professor at Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand. His areas of expertise include business-government relations, deindustrialization, energy policy, and public ownership and privatisation. A former Head of Energy Supply Policy at the Scottish Government, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Society of Arts.