Dr. Frederic Schneider is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich. He specializes in labor economics and consults on Middle Eastern economic policy, particularly post-oil economic transition in the GCC. He has held posts at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Cambridge. His academic research has been cited over 800 times and published in world-leading journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Economic Journal, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of the European Economic Association. His policy analysis has appeared in news outlets like the Washington Post, Al-Monitor, Orient XII, and The National, and with institutions such as the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, and the London School of Economics’ Middle East Centre.
