Media, Op-Eds & Public Events
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
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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
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Interview on Engineers of Jihad, The Monkey Cage, April 2016
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The one thing in Saudi Arabia that works well is under threat (about Saudi Aramco) Reuters, February 2016
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Oil prices: eventually the Gulf states will run out of power, The Conversation, January 2015
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Prescription to reform the world of Arab business, Financial Times, October 2014
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The GCC's national employment challenge, The Monkey Cage, July 2014
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The Perils of Economic Populism in the Mideast, Bloomberg, July 2011
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The costs of counter-revolution in the GCC, Foreign Policy, May 2011