Timothy Puko covers metals and mining from Washington for the firm's Energy, Climate & Resources team. Among other issues, he will follow the worldwide race to secure battery minerals and the geopolitical friction over mineral supply chains. With nearly a decade of experience in the US capital writing about energy and climate policy, Tim will also contribute to the team's analysis of political risks affecting oil and gas markets, clean-energy development, sustainability, and energy security.

Tim arrived at Eurasia Group after more than 15 years as a journalist, most of it covering energy markets and the intersection of business and government. He was most recently at the Washington Post after spending eight years at the Wall Street Journal. For these newspapers, Tim wrote about groundbreaking policy shifts during two presidential administrations. That coverage included scoops on greenhouse gas regulations and corporate sustainability, international negotiations over climate change and energy supplies, and the struggles to revive the US mining industry. Before that, he wrote about energy investors and commodity traders in New York.

Tim started covering energy and resources in the early years of the fracking boom in his hometown of Pittsburgh where he worked for the Tribune-Review. He has spent days in the deep underground mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wyoming. He has written about fights over uranium in the Four Corners states, copper in Alaska, and rare earths in California. Tim received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.