Main Recent Public Lectures (from 2002 on)

•        Book Discussant at the Carnegie Endowment for David Ottaway’s book “The King’s Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America’s Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia”  November 12, 2008
•        RCNSC [Reserves Officers Training at the National Defense University], Presentation on the political economy of the Gulf, July 23, 2008.
•        National Defense University, presentation on the business and economic dimension of the Iran-Iraq  relations, Washington DC, July 23, 2008
•        Stanford University, Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law:  Paper and Presentation: “Monarchy  vs Democratization in Saudi Arabia”. Palo Alto, CA, June 6, 2008
•        World Bank: “The Growing Middle East Asia Energy Relationship and Capital Flow”, Washington DC, June 10, 2008
•        Georgetown University, Paper and Presentation “Financing Industrialization in the Gulf” March 27, 2008
•        Emirates Center for Security and Social Research, AbuDhabi, 4/1/08 Paper on Trade and Development [to be published by ECSSR]
•        Columbia University 3/24/08 Brown Bag Petrodollars and Industrialization at the CEMMS
•        Georgetown University 3/27/08 Financing Industrialization.  Presentation to the Symposium on Industrialization in the Gulf
•        Council on Foreign Relations.  Presentation on Dubai and the Gulf.   3/05/08
•        Lecture at the Dubai School of Government on Industrialization in the Gulf  2/17/08
•        World Refiners Association-Dubai Conference;  Lecture on the Pricing of Feedstock  11/11/07
•        Raytheon Corporation.  Keynote speaker. 4/31/07 and 10/12/07
•        UAE Embassy.  Briefing to the Ambassador and the Staff on industrialization in the Gulf.  4/29/07
•        World Refiners Association, Frankfurt March 29, 2007.  Lecture on Petrochemical Strategies in the Gulf
•        Center for Energy and Maritime Studies, Columbia University.  Brownbag on Industrialization in the Gulf 4/9/07
•        Harvard University Association of Arab Alumni:  Lecture on Industrialization in the Gulf  2/10/07
•        Energia Club, Georgetown Universtity.  Lecture on Oil and Development in the Gulf  3/21/07
•        Georgetown University 2/2/07 respondent on a Film about King AbdelAziz presented by HRH Prince Turki alFaysal
•        Georgetown University School of Business.   Lecture on Dubai and the Gulf  1/16/07
•        Sarasota Institute of Lifelong Learning.  2 lectures and a 3 hours seminar on Saudi Arabia. January 4/5 2007
•        Columbia University, panelist on Gulf responses to the Iranian Crisis 5/3/06
•        Saudi Aramco, Dharan, 3/19/06 lecture on Gulf Petrochemical strategy
•        Lecture in Dubai 9/19/05 at Middle East Conference on Petrochemicals “Saudi Petrochemicals Strtategy
•        Democratic Club of Annapolis, lecture on Saudi Arabia, 12/16/06
•        War College, Washingtion DC, lecture on Saudi Arabia 11/14/06
•        Brown bag lecture at Columbia University on Saudi Petrochemical Strategy.  October 24, 2005
•        Forum du Futur [a French think tank] Lecture on Oil Policy in Saudi Arabia
•       Sciences-Po Paris, 5/3/05 Public Lecture on the Saudi Socio-Economic System
•        National Defense University.  04/18/05 Prospects for Security in the Middle East Democratization in the Region
•        Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  04/06/05 Social Structure and Democratization in Saudi Arabia
•        DC Young Republican Club 7/11/05.  Speech on Middle East issues
•        Interview in Saudi Arabia-US Relations.  http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/newsletter2004/saudi-relations-interest-10-08.html.
•        Middle East Institute, Washington DC:  12/07/ 2004  Stability and Reform in Saudi Arabia After the Elections
•        Sarasota Institute of Lifelong Learning.  2 lectures and a 3 hours seminar on Saudi Arabia. January 2004 and again in January 2005
•        Institut des Sciences Politiques, Paris 3/23/04.  Political Liberalization in Saudi Arabia
•        University of Virginia Law School, lecture on democratization in Saudi Arabia 11/24/2003
•        Carnegie Mellon University, lecture on the Persian Gulf  10/10/2003
•        The New Republic: Panel on Saudi Arabia on Capitol Hill 10/2/2003
•        Congressional Quartely, panel on Saudi Arabia 10/17/2003
•        First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis series of 4 lectures on the Gulf Oct. and Nov. 2003 and January 2008
•        Georgetown University, Panel on Saudi Arabia, 3/26/03
•        National Endowment for Democracy 3/24/03 “The war in Iraq and Democratization in the Gulf”
•        Université de Rennes, France, Institut des Sciences Politiques.  « Le jeu des grandes puissances en Iraq ».  03/12/03.
•        Lecture on Democratization in the Gulf at the Judge Advocate General School of Law, University of Virginia, 02/12/2003
•        University of Virginia Law School, October 2002. Economic Pressures Stir Democratic Changes in Saudi Arabia http://www.law.virginia.edu/home2002/html/news/2002_fall/saudi.ht
•        Panelist and workshop leader on Iraq, American Peace Committee, Annapolis, MD 11/16/02
•        Columbia University: Public Lecture on “Democratization in Saudi Arabia”  09/2002
•         10/4/01Series of 5 lectures on Islam at First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis, October 2002
•        Republican Club of New Bedford Mass. 4/23/2002.  Lecture on Saudi-US Oil Policy
•        Alumni Club of Columbia University.  4/20/2002, Washington DC & 11/6/02 Sarasota, FL, .03/05/03 Naples FL.  Lectures  on Arab-Persian Gulf
•        Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris,3/19/2002.  Lecture on the sanctions  on Iraq
•        American Jewish Committee, Washington DC 2/20/2002.  Lecture on Finance in the Middle East