Jean-François Seznec is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. He is also an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and School of Foreign Service. He co-authored, with Samer Mosis, the book The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf: Power, Politics and Money, published by Routledge. Previously, Seznec was a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He also taught at Columbia University for two decades. Seznec is the founder and managing director of the Lafayette Group LLC, a U.S.-based private investment company. He has 25 years of experience in international banking and finance of which 10 years were spent in the Middle East, including six years in Bahrain as a banker. Seznec has a PhD, an MA, and an MPhil in political science from Yale University, and an MA in international affairs from Columbia University. He has a BA in international affairs from Washington College.