Hakim Darbouche
Research Fellow

Hakim Darbouche joined the Institute in April 2009. He is an expert and has published extensively on North Africa, focusing on energy, economy, politics and international relations. His research at the OIES also focuses on MENA gas markets. Prior to joining the OIES, Dr Darbouche served as an advisor on MENA affairs to a Brussels-based international organisation. He was also a visiting research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in 2007. He read International Relations at the universities of Liverpool and Sussex. In Oxford, he is a senior member of St Antony’s College and a Region Head on the MENA desk at Oxford Analytica. He is also Deputy Editor of the journal Mediterranean Politics.


'Algeria's natural gas market: Origins and constraints of export strategy', in Bassam Fattouh and Jonathan Stern (eds), Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford University Press, 2011.

'Egypt's natural gas market: so far so good, but where to next?', in Bassam Fattouh and Jonathan Stern (eds),Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford University Press, 2011 - with Robert Mabro.

'The role of natural gas in North African transit countries', in Bassam Fattouh and Jonathan Stern (eds), Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford University Press, 2011 - with Waniss Otman.

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