Frédéric Schneider

Frederic 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 institutions such as the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the Gulf International Forum, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW), the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, the Dubai Future Foundation, Our World in Data, and the London School of Economics’ Middle East Centre.

His 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.

Schneider holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich and has held lecturer and fellow positions at leading universities such as the University of California, Berkeley (2010-2011), Yale University (2016-2018), and Cambridge University (2018-2021). His academic research has appeared 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 been cited over 900 times and given over 60 talks at conferences and institutions such as Princeton University, École Polytechnique (Paris), and Tsinghua University (Beijing).

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 interviews.