Omar Al Ubaydli

Columnist

Bahrain

Omar Al-Ubaydli is director of economics and energy studies at Derasat in Bahrain and a columnist for The National. He is also an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University; and an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Centre. His research interests include political economy, experimental economics and the economics of the GCC countries. Omar served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Advisory Board of Economists and a visiting professor of economics at the University of Chicago.