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Omar Al-Ubaydli is the Director of Research at Derasat, Bahrain. He is also an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University; an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center; a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute; and a non-resident fellow at Trends, UAE. Al-Ubaydli is also the president of the Bahrain Economists Society. Al-Ubaydli previously served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Advisory Board of Economists and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Al-Ubaydli’s research interests include political economy, experimental economics, and the economics of the GCC countries. He regularly publishes his research in international peer-reviewed academic journals, and his mainstream media articles have appeared in Arabic and English-language newspapers and blogs such as AlHayat, The National, Forbes Opinion, and US News.

Al-Ubaydli earned his BA in economics from the University of Cambridge, and his MA and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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