{"id":3539,"date":"2021-11-01T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/?page_id=3539"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:13:23","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/keynote-speakers","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Hanieh<\/strong><\/a> is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London. Currently, he is the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute and MBI Jaber Chair of Middle East Studies.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining SOAS, he was a Professor and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Exeter and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Hanieh serves on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and is a Research Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI), headquartered in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Prof. Hanieh’s current research looks at the interplay of fossil fuels, capitalism, and the climate emergency, with a particular focus on the Gulf states of the Middle East. He is the author of four monographs, including\u00a0Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the 2019 British International Studies Association IPE Group Book and\u00a0Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>which\u00a0<\/em>came out\u00a0with Verso Books in 2024 and was co-winner of the 2025 Best Book by an International Scholar, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association.<\/p>\n