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Michael Herb’s paper covered “Class Implications of Efforts to Reform Labor Markets in the Gulf Monarchies” and called for the cautious reintroduction of class analysis to the political economy of the GCC states; its main focus was the differentiated impact of different types of (potential) labor reforms on various stakeholders in local society, namely capitalists, national employees in public and private sector workers as well as expatriates. Gwenn Okruhlik’s presentation “In the Shadows of Citizenship: Foreign Labor in the Arab Gulf” discussed emerging socio-cultural and socio-economic conflicts between local and expatriate society in the face of increased international interest in expatriate labor issues. It was followed by a talk by Shannon McNulty entitled “Expecting a Brighter Future - The Challenges of Graduate Placement in the GCC Workforce” which provided an initial tracer study of graduates at Qatar Education City’s Texas A&M campus, focusing on differences between Qatari and international students in their aspirations and initial job market successes. The last presentation by Khalid Alyahya, “Linking Human Capital Development to Empowerment and National Identity in the Gulf,” analyzed the disjuncture between the high-quality human capital of often foreign-trained nationals and a local institutional context in which this human capital is not put to good use. The workshop concluded with a joint meeting with workshop 6 on immigration in the Gulf, during which all participants briefly presented their research projects. The workshop directors agreed on a provisional basis to work on a joint publication, possibly in a leading migration studies journal. Gulf Research Meeting – July 2010 61
62 The 2010 Gulf Research Meeting Workshop Director Profiles Dr. Steffen Hertog Dr. Steffen Hertog is Kuwait Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, a senior consultant at the Gulf Research Center, and a lecturer in political economy at the University of Durham (on leave). He has previously worked as post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University and wrote his Ph.D. about Saudi economic reforms at the University of Oxford. He has been travelling and working in the Middle East extensively since 2000, both as an academic and as resident consultant with GTZ for the Saudi government. Steffen’s main interest lies in Gulf and Middle East political economy, specifically Arab bureaucracies and state-business relations. He has a subsidiary interest in processes of political liberalization and mobilization in the Gulf. Steffen has lectured about Saudi and Gulf politics at conferences and workshops organized by Princeton University, Oxford University, the London School of Economics, the National Defence University in Washington, the University of Pennsylvania, the Brookings Institution, Sciences Po, the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, the University of Exeter, the Saudi-British Society and the European University Institute (Florence).His articles have been published in Sharq Al-Awsat, Neue Zuericher Zeitung and Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Media appearances include Atlantic Monthly, Guardian, Newsweek, the Observer and the Wall Street Journal. His academic publications have appeared in leading political science and area studies journals, including International Journal of Middle East Studies, Review of International Political Economy and Business History. Dr. Rola Dashti Dr. Rola Dashti is a Kuwaiti activist advocating democratic reform, gender equality and increased roles for women in public life. Dr. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to vote and run for parliamentary elections for the first time. She was the first woman to file her papers at the election department, when the registration opened, and she herself was a candidate in the 2006 parliamentary election. In the 2009 parliamentary elections, she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament. Rola Dashti was listed among the world’s 100 most influential Arabs for 2007 and 2008. She was the first woman elected to chair the Kuwaiti Economic Society, which was founded in 1970. In addition to serving in this position, Dr. Dashti heads an international consultancy firm in Kuwait focusing on privatization and activation of SMEs,. She is a member of the executive committee of Young Arab Leaders and is the founder of the Women Participation Organization. She holds a PhD in Population Economics from John Hopkins University.
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