Juan Manuel Chomón

Juan Manuel Chomón Pérez is a Spanish author and analyst specialising in geopolitics, critical minerals, industrial and defence policy, and the strategic competition surrounding natural resources. His perspective combines rigorous academic analysis. supported by two master's degrees and a doctorate in related fields, with substantial first-hand international experience. For more than thirteen years, he has lived and worked across Asia, Africa and Europe, while also travelling through many of the countries and regions examined in his work. This combination of on the ground experience and academic research informs his analysis of the growing importance of rare earths and other critical raw materials for technology, the energy transition and international security. He is the author of The Rare Earth Era.

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