Patrick
Osgood
Associate Director
Control Risks Middle East
Patrick leads Control Risks’ analysis of political, operational and security environments in Iraq and Oman. He writes daily analysis for CORE, our online information service, provides bespoke political risk advisory services to clients across sectors, and oversees the Iraq Weekly report. Patrick works closely with our analysis teams in Baghdad, Basra and Erbil, where he travels regularly, and leads on consulting engagements on Iraq and Oman.
He has seven years’ experience of reporting, researching and consultancy on Iraq, with a focus on the oil & gas sector, and lived in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for five years.