Bertha Tobias

How Do Extractive Petro-Promises Become Political Realities? Examining State and Corporate Future-Making Strategies in Namibia’s Emerging Offshore Oil Sector

Bertha Tobias is a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil student supervised by Dr Amber Murrey.  Her research examines Namibia’s emerging offshore oil industry through the lenses of political ecology, extractive labour spatialities, and future-making. She is particularly interested in how new extractive frontiers reconfigure sovereignty, corporate power, and state–citizen relations. 

Her doctoral work builds on her MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise & Environment at Oxford University, where she focused on the political economy of Namibia’s electricity market reform through solar power production. Before her postgraduate studies, she worked at an international multi-energy company in her home country of Namibia and maintains a strong interest in industry.