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Luay al-Khatteeb
Former Minister of Electricity, Iraq
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Former Minister of Electricity, Iraq
Dr. Luay al-Khatteeb is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Prior to this appointment he was former minister of Electricity & Member of the Federal Energy Council in the Republic of Iraq.Dr. Luay al Khatteeb is the founding director of Iraq Energy Institute, and a former Foreign Policy Fellow at Brookings Institution.
His professional experiences span over twenty years in business development and public policy with executive capacities as director and senior advisor to various multilateral institutions, international oil companies, commercial banks and management consulting firms. He is a frequent commentator on issues related to energy security, economics, and politics in the Middle East. He is working on two books, the first addresses the comparative energy policy frameworks in federal systems, and the second on the political economy of Iraq post 2003.His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Brookings Institution, Harvard University, Columbia University, Oxford Energy Institute, The Middle East Institute, The National Interest, The Huffington Post, Al-Monitor, CNN, MEES, The Petroleum-Economist and The National of the UAE among others. Dr. al-Khatteeb earned his Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
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