Kuwait Programme - Breakfast seminars

11 October 2016

Looking forward: Iranian politics after the May 2017 presidential election

Speakers: Evaleila Pesaran, University of Cambridge (pictured), and Pejman Abdolmohammadi, LSE Middle East Centre

4 March 2016

The political stability of the Gulf in the new oil price environment

Speakers: Giacomo Luciani, Graduate Institute Geneva, and Steffen Hertog, LSE (pictured)

23 November 2012

Power shifts in the Middle East

Speakers: Edward Chaplin (pictured), British Ambassador to Iraq 2004-5 and former Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Middle East Department. Dr Noel Brehony, former senior British diplomat in Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt and former chairman of the Middle East Association

15 June 2012

The political economy of fiscal stability in the Gulf

Speakers: H.E. Mohammed Al-Sabah (pictured) and Steffen Hertog

H.E. Dr Mohammed Al-Sabah is the former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kuwait. Steffen Hertog is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at LSE and author of Princes, brokers and bureaucrats: oil and the state in Saudi Arabia.

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16 March 2012

The Gulf and the global economy

Speakers: Danny Quah (pictured) and Alastair Newton

Danny Quah is Kuwait Professor at the LSE. Alastair Newton is Senior Political Analyst at Nomura International.

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8 November 2011

Faith and politics in the Gulf

Speakers: Roger Hardy and Jane Kinninmont (pictured)

Roger Hardy, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at LSE and former Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service and Jane Kinninmont, Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House.

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6 June 2011

Political change in the Gulf

Speakers: Sir Harold Walker and H.E. Khaled Al-Duwaisan (pictured)

Sir Harold Walker is a former British Ambassador to Iraq, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. H.E. Khaled Al-Duwaisan is Ambassador of Kuwait to the United Kingdom.

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26 January 2011

Post-American Iraq and Gulf security

Speakers: Nir Rosen (pictured) and Dr Kristian Ulrichsen

Nir Rosen is a journalist and fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law; he is also the author of Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World. Dr Kristian Ulrichsen is the Deputy Director of the Kuwait Programme.

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11 November 2010

The Gulf and the Knowledge Economy

Speakers: Will Hutton and Dr Christopher Davidson (pictured)

Will Hutton, executive vice chair of the Work Foundation, former editor in chief of The Observer. Dr Christopher Davidson is Reader at the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University.

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9 June 2010

Al-Qaeda and the global Jihad in the Arabian Gulf

Speakers: Major General Andy Salmon and Professor Fawaz Gerges (pictured)

Major General Andy Salmon CMG OBE, is Director of Force Generation and Force Readiness, SHAPE, NATO and Senior Visiting Fellow, LSE Global Governance. Fawaz Gerges is Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the LSE.

9 February 2010

Islamic finance in the Gulf

Speakers: George Morton (pictured) and Ian Walker

George Morton is Chairman of MEC International and a Director of the European Islamic Investment Bank. Ian Walker is Director of the Arab Financial Forum.

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10 November 2009

Gulf perspectives on climate change

Speakers: Professor Sir David King and Professor Giacomo Luciani (pictured)

Professor Sir David King is Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford Professor Giacomo Luciani is Director of the Gulf Research Center Foundation, Geneva.

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9 June 2009

The Gulf and the financial crisis

Speakers: Yousef Al-Awadi and Will Hutton (pictured)

Dr Yousef Al-Awadhi is chief executive of YAA Consultancy, former chief executive officer of the Gulf Bank. Will Hutton is executive vice chair of the Work Foundation, former editor in chief of the Observer.

24 February 2009

Oil, sustainability and Gulf politics

Speakers: Peter Sutherland and Lakhdar Brahimi (pictured)

Peter Sutherland is a former chairman of BP. Lakhdar Brahimi is a former United Nations representative for Iraq and Afghanistan.

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25 November 2008

Gulf security and the new US presidency

Speakers: Sir Jeremy Greenstock and Professor Mary Kaldor (pictured)

Sir Jeremy Greenstock is Director of the Ditchley Foundation and a former British Ambassador to the United Nations. Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance in the Department of International Development at the LSE.

10 June 2008

The global economy and the Gulf states

Speakers: Professor Timothy Besley (pictured) and Professor Danny Quah

Professor Timothy Besley is Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science and Director of LSE's Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). Professor Danny Quah is Head of Economics at the LSE.

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