Saudi Arabia’s 60-Year Battle for Food Security
The climate crisis has shifted the Saudi approach to agriculture from rent distribution and coalition building to strategic investment to ensure Saudis have enough to eat.
Marie van den Bosch
Visiting Scholar, AGSIW
Marie van den Bosch is a visiting scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Her research currently focuses on green energy and democratization, the effect of climate change on regime survival, and energy transition in the Gulf. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches classes on oil and authoritarian politics and literature and politics in the Department of Government.
From 2018-19, she was the Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Before her doctoral studies, she was a researcher for the chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank, a consultant in Qatar for BCG, and a consultant in Yemen for the European Commission.
Van den Bosch received her PhD in politics (comparative politics) from Princeton University and holds an MA from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. She completed her undergraduate degree in classics at UCLouvain in Belgium, where she is from.
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