Omar Al-Ubaydli is 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
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