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Future Trends in the Gulf

Tue. March 3rd, 2015
Washington, DC

Amid a region beset by civil wars and terrorism, the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are facing growing challenges from an increasingly youthful population, aging rulers, economic pressures, and a new information environment. How well are Gulf regimes responding to these challenges? A panel of Gulf experts explored the region’s shifting landscape and the imperatives for sustainable political and economic reforms.

Jamil De Dominicis

Jamil De Dominicis is a coordinator in the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House.

Kristin Smith Diwan

Kristin Smith Diwan is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University and lecturer at American University’s School of International Service.

Jane Kinninmont

Jane Kinninmont is deputy head and senior research fellow in the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House.

Matar Embrahim Matar

Matar Ebrahim Matar is a former member of the Bahraini parliament.

Frederic Wehrey

Frederic Wehrey is a senior associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Political ReformEconomyBahrainSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab Emirates
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Frederic Wehrey

Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on governance, conflict, and security in Libya, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf.

Kristin Smith Diwan

Kristin Smith Diwan is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Her current projects concern generational change, nationalism, and the evolution of Islamism in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Jamil De Dominicis

Jane Kinninmont

European Leadership Network

Jane Kinninmont is the director of impact at the European Leadership Network.

Matar Ebrahim Matar