Frédéric Schneider

Frédéric Schneider is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is also an independent policy consultant who has worked with international institutions such as the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the Gulf International Forum, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW), and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, among others.

Schneider’s research interests include Middle Eastern economic policy—particularly the post-oil economic transition in the GCC, industrial policy, labor policy, the knowledge economy, and climate change.

His analysis and commentary have appeared in news outlets like The Washington Post, Al-Monitor, Orient XII, The National, and The Peninsula, as well as in radio and podcast series. Schneider has published many articles 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. He has also given talks at conferences and institutions such as Princeton University, École Polytechnique (Paris), and Tsinghua University (Beijing).