Transnational Institute

Kamil Mahdi is an experienced analyst of Middle Eastern politics and economics, in particular the political economy of oil-exporting countries. 

Mahdi is secretary of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, researching Iraq's economy, politics and modern history including the politics and economics of sanctions, conflict and occupation. His other interests include economic policy in Arab countries; Middle East agriculture and the socio-economics of agrarian change.

His publications include Yemen into the Twenty-First Century (eds, with Anna Wuerth and Helen Lackner, Ithaca Press, 2007) and Iraq’s Economic Predicament (ed, Ithaca Press, 2005). He is a former Director of the Centre for Arab Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and has previously taught economics at Sheffield University and at Yarmouk University in Jordan. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham, 1982.