Laura El-Katiri
Junior Research Fellow

Laura El-Katiri specialises on energy policy in the Middle East, with a focus on the Arabic-speaking Gulf countries. Her special interests include the political economy of natural resource wealth, oil and natural gas markets in the in the GCC states, and GCC economic development and diversification. She is also a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Financial and Management Studies at the School of Oriental African Studies, University of London. Laura graduated in Arabic and Economics from the University of Exeter and in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford.

Anatomy of an Oil-Based Welfare State: Rent Distribution in Kuwait, with Bassam Fattouh and Paul Segal, in David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen (eds.), The Transformation of the Gulf States: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, forthcoming 2011, Routledge.

Also published as an LSE Research Paper, Anatomy of an oil-based welfare state: Rent distribution in Kuwait .