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Malte Humpert is a seasoned journalist for High North News, where he researches and writes on developments in the Arctic, especially shipping, oil and gas, geopolitics, and climate change.


He is also a Senior Fellow with The Arctic Institute, an interdisciplinary non-profit think tank, which he founded in 2011. At the Institute his research focuses on Arctic geopolitics, Arctic shipping and shipping scenarios, and China's political and economic interests in the region.

He was also an author on the EU Commission's 2021 report on EU actions in the Arctic and their impact.

His report on the future of Arctic shipping was selected by the Council of Foreign Relations as one of the “10 must-reads of the year”. He previously worked as energy consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, where he produced extensive Energy Dossiers on twelve Caribbean countries assessing their energy sectors, describing the legal and regulatory framework of their energy sectors and the formation of policies, and issuing policy recommendations. He also wrote the Energy Sector Note on Suriname informing the Bank’s 2017-2022 country strategy. In 2013 he published a comprehensive overview on the sector with the Caribbean Energy Matrix Country Briefings. Malte’s work has been quoted or cited by, among others, the Associated Press, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, New Scientist, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post. He has also regularly features on radio and TV media including CNN, Al Jazeera, NPR, BBC, Rúv Icelandic Television and Radio National Australia. He is a member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences.
Malte holds a master’s degree in European Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University, Northridge. He was named a prominent alumni of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, a select list which includes around 100 individuals, in 2013.