Mostafa Lotfy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. His dissertation research focuses on energy transition in Morocco. He studies the potential of green hydrogen to facilitate a transition to a post-petroleum future while simultaneously interrogating its environmental, financial, and geopolitical implications.

Prior to starting his doctoral studies at Rice, he got his MA in cultural anthropology from the American University in Cairo. A monograph based on his MA thesis was published by Cairo Papers in Social Science as Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers. He worked as a journalist for the bilingual news website Mada Masr in Egypt, and as a researcher for two short documentary films.