Jean-François Seznec is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Scholar at the Middle East Institute. He has published and lectured extensively on the industrialization and politics of the Arab-Persian Gulf. He is interviewed and quoted regularly on national and international TV, radio and newspapers. He holds a MIA from Columbia University, an MA and Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Seznec has 25 years’ experience in finance of which ten years were spent in the Middle East.