Aisha Al-Sarihi

Aisha Al-Sarihi is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and a nonresident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Al-Sarihi’s areas of research include political economy, environmental sustainability, energy policy, renewables, and climate policies, with a focus on the Arab region. She has authored several publications, including articles in the Journal of Aerosol and Air Quality Research, Renewable Energy, and the Climate Policy Journal. Her latest edited book is titled “Climate Policy and Politics in the Middle East: Environmental, Economic and Political Challenges” (Bloomsbury Publishing).

Previously, Al-Sarihi was a research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute, a research associate at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. She was also a visiting fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and served as a research officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Middle East Centre.

Al-Sarihi’s research has been featured in different international media outlets including Reuters, New York Times, Financial Times, Associated Press, The New Arab, Arab News, and Asia Times, among many others.