The Middle East Journal, MEI’s flagship publication and the oldest American journal devoted to the contemporary Middle East, will host a webinar featuring Alice Baudin and Karen E. Young, who will discuss their new MEJ essay, “Beyond the Iran War Shock: The Next Phase of Gulf-China Energy Ties.” China has a broad portfolio of interests across the Gulf. While the war with Iran has focused attention on China-Iran energy relations, Beijing is deeply involved not only in the region’s hydrocarbon sector but also in green energy and AI development. The discussion will explore China’s future role in the Gulf as Beijing works both to secure its energy supply and to reduce its reliance on oil. MEJ Editor Ariel I. Ahram will moderate.
Speaker Biographies
Alice Baudin is a geopolitical analyst at Lazard Geopolitical Advisory (LGA), which provides market-relevant geopolitical analysis to Lazard and its clients. She holds a dual master’s degree in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia SIPA and Sciences Po Paris, with a specialization in Middle Eastern studies. She earned a BSc in Political Economy from King’s College London.
Dr. Karen E. Young is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, and author of The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States: Deploying Aid, Investment, and Development Across the MENAP (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Ariel I. Ahram (Moderator) is Editor of the Middle East Journal and a Professor at the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (Polity, 2020), Break All the Borders (Oxford, 2019), and Proxy Warriors (Stanford, 2011). He earned his BA from Brandeis University and both his MA in Arab Studies and PhD in Government from Georgetown University.
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