Laura El-Katiri
Junior Research Fellow

Laura El-Katiri is a Junior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Financial and Management Studies at the School of Oriental African Studies, University of London. Her research focuses on energy and economic policy in the Middle East, with particular focus on the economies of the Persian Gulf. Her special interests include the management of natural resource wealth; oil-led development strategies and strategies for economic diversifications; energy pricing policies; the development of MENA oil and natural gas markets; and private company investment frameworks in the energy industry.

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 .