Aisha Al-Sarihi

Aisha Al-Sarihi is a Research Officer at the LSE Kuwait Programme working on Climate Change in GCC States. Aisha is completing her doctoral thesis at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. The focus of her doctoral thesis is to investigate a potential shift to low-carbon economies in hydrocarbon-rich countries with a particular focus on the role of a wide-scale integration of renewable energy. Her research interests encompass energy policy and governance in the Middle East and North African countries, notably issues of energy subsidies and electricity tariff subsidies; energy system modelling; renewable energy policies; and climate change policies in developing countries.

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Contact

E-mail: A.Al-Sarihi@lse.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7097

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Research Interests

• Low-carbon energy transitions in the Middle East and North Africa
• Renewable energy policies
• Energy system modelling
• Climate change policies in the GCC

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Publications

• Al-Sarihi, A. S., Cherni, J. A. (2014). A potential socio-technical transition to renewable energy in hydrocarbon-rich economies: The case of Oman. ETH PhD Academy on Sustainability and Technology 2014, Zurich, Switzerland; 06/2014
  
  
• Al-Sarihi, A. S., Contestabile, M., Cherni, J. A. (2015). Renewable Energy Policy Evaluation Using A System Dynamics Approach: The Case of Oman. The 33rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 07/2015
  
  
• Baawain, M. S., & Al-Serihi, A. S. (2014). Systematic Approach for the Prediction of Ground-Level Air Pollution (around an Industrial Port) Using an Artificial Neural Network. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 14, 124–134.

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Selected Talks

• October 2014. Lunchtime seminar, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK. 'The potential transition to renewable energy: The case of Oman.'
  
  
• May 2015. Presentation. 21^st Annual DPhil Day, Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK. 'Drivers, barriers and strategies for renewable energy implementation in Oman: A multi-level perspective analysis.'

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 Blogs

• 'Can climate change speed up economic diversification in the GCC?', Middle East Centre blog, October 2016.
• 'What the plunge in oil prices means for renewable energy investments in the GCC', Middle East Centre blog, June 2016.