Frédéric Schneider

Frédéric Schneider is an economist and nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. His research interests include West Asian economic policy, particularly the post-oil economic transition in the GCC including industrial policy, labor policy, the knowledge economy, and climate change. He holds a PhD from the University of Zurich and has held posts at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge. His academic articles have been published in leading journals like the Economic Journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Economic Journal, and the Journal of the European Economic Association, and have been cited close to 1000 times. His analysis and commentary appear in news outlets like Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, DW, AFP, Al-Monitor, Orient XII, The National, and The Peninsula.

Publications