Media, Op-Eds & Public Events
How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy (based on work with Ferdinand Eibl), inaugural lecture as full professor at the LSE, January 2026
Interview with Dahlia Rahaimy on Saudi Times about how the new generation of Saudis is navigating a changing labour market and social contract, August 2025
Bloomberg Alsharq interview about the GCC's growing status as international investment hub, August 2025
The Opportunities and Risks of Industrial Policy in the Gulf, symposium with Tim Callen (AGSIW) and Fuad Hasanov (IMF), March 2025
A New Gulf Growth Model, with Faris Al-Sulayman, Project Syndicate, February 2025
'Locked out of development: a conversation with Steffen Hertog', CSIS, April 2023
Arab states’ rigid economies are a ticking time bomb, Foreign Policy, March 2023
The case for an Arabian Universal Basic Income, Project Syndicate, 9 December 2020
'What Would it Take to Transform Saudi Arabia Into a Post-Oil Economy?' at KFCRIS, 7/11/2018
Mohammed bin Salman Isn’t Wonky Enough, Foreign Policy, March 2018
'Engineers of Jihad' interview, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science, 3/8/2016
Interview on Engineers of Jihad, BCC Thinking Allowed, July 2016
Interview on Engineers of Jihad, The Monkey Cage, April 2016
The one thing in Saudi Arabia that works well is under threat (about Saudi Aramco) Reuters, February 2016
Oil prices: eventually the Gulf states will run out of power, The Conversation, January 2015
Prescription to reform the world of Arab business, Financial Times, October 2014
The GCC's national employment challenge, The Monkey Cage, July 2014
The Perils of Economic Populism in the Mideast, Bloomberg, July 2011
The costs of counter-revolution in the GCC, Foreign Policy, May 2011