About Duncan Clarke

 

Born, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1948

  • St Georges College, Salisbury, 1960-65

  • Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 1966-69

  • Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1970-76

  • University College of Rhodesia, 1970-74

  • University of St Andrews, 1970-71 and 1974-75

  • Geneva, 1977-1988 - Sydney, 1988-1999 - Johannesburg, 1999-2003 -

    London, 2004-09 - Johannesburg 2009-13 - England 2014-2024 - Greece 2005+

  • Worldwide Travel: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Latin America, MidEast, United States, Canada, Russia - to 127 countries.

1978-2016

As founder of Global Pacific & Partners, the firm established the African Institute of Petroleum, 1996-2017 and the PetroAfricanus Club, 2003-16.

The firm published numerous works for private clients and it distributed Worldwide Daily Oil & Gas News, 2001-16.

Duncan Clarke undertook research on National Oil Companies, 1981-2016, and conducted Strategy Briefings Worldwide, 1986-2014, as part of the firm’s global suite of oil, gas and energy conferences, 1991-2016 in Africa, Asia, The Americas, Mideast and Australasia.

An Advisory Practice for Governments, state-owned firms and corporate players was conducted from 1978-2017 on Africa and worldwide oil and gas strategy.

‘Out of Africa’, Profile, January 2008, Petroleum Economist

The author has been a speaker at conferences on six continents and been often quoted in the international media, and interviewed on radio and television.

Public discourses include a Podcast done with the British historian Dan Snow on Cecil Rhodes, and by Hannes Wessels on Rhodes’ Ghost and The Last Rhodesians (both these found on YouTube).

Founder: Royal Sable Publishing

Royal Sable Publishing was established by the author in England in 2021 and bears the trademark image of the Royal Sable, an iconic animal in Central Africa.

Published List, 2025

Cecil Rhodes’ Library, The Quiet Rhodesian, Accidental Author, The Last Rhodesians, Rhodes’ Ghost, Three Decades in the Long Grass, Zambesia: The Literary Safari, The Grandfather: Rhodesian Saga, 1870-1941. The House of Stone: An Unwritten Story, and Twilight in Paradise: The “Left Behind” Rhodesians - plus numerous eBooks on Kindle.

For more, see www.duncan-clarke.com