Dirk Vandewalle

DEGREE

• PhD, 1988, Columbia University;
• MA and MPhil, 1982, Columbia University;
• MIA and Certificate, Middle East Institute, 1980, Columbia University;
• BA, Southwest State University, 1978

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Islamic finance; commodity booms, institutional development, and economic reform in the Arab Gulf states and North Africa; sovereign wealth funds in Arab Gulf states

COURSES

• Doing Business in the Arab Gulf States

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS

• The new Arab Gulf: power, wealth and responsibility in the global economy

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Academic positions

• Tuck School of Business, 2009–present
• Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, 2007
• Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College, 2002–03
• Fulbright Regional Research Associate, Gulf Research Center, Dubai, 2005–06
• Fulbright Regional Research Associate, Morocco and Yemen, 1996–97
• Visiting Scholar, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1996–97
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1994–95
• Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College 1991–97

Editorial positions

• Editorial Boards, London Middle East Institute
• L'Annee du Maghreb (Aix-en-Provence)

WORKING PAPERS

• With S. Hertog, “Tribal Chaos versus Tribal Order: Patrimonial Control Strategies in Libya and Saudi Arabia”
• The New Arab Gulf: Power, Wealth and Responsibility in the Global Economy (book)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Editor with C. Davidson, Hurst/Columbia University Press series on the Contemporary Arab Gulf
• Libya Since 1969: Qadhafi's Revolution Revisited, editor, Palgrave, 2008
• A History of Modern Libya, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• "From Labor Force Growth to Job Creation," regional economic report on the Middle East and North Africa, The World Bank, 2004
• “Social Contracts, Institutional Development and Economic Growth and Reform in Middle East Oil Exporters,” background paper in The Employment Challenge in the 21st Century
• Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building, Cornell University Press, 1998
• North Africa: Development and Reform in a Changing Global Economy, editor, St. Martin's Press, 1996
• Qadhafi's Revolution 1969–1994, editor, St. Martin's Press, 1995