Giacomo Luciani is a leading Italian expert on the geopolitics of energy often cited in the media. He is primarily known for his seminal contributions to the theory of the
rentier state with Egyptian economist
Hazem Al Beblawi.
[Beblawi, Hazem Al and Luciani, Giacomo, 1990, The Rentier State in the Arab World, in Luciani, G., ''The Arab State'', London, Routledge, p.87-88]
Background
He is an adjunct professor at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and scientific advisor of the Master in International Energy the Paris School of International Affairs at
Sciences Po
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in Paris. Luciani is also a
Princeton University Global Scholar attached to the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Near Eastern Studies. He is Senior Advisor to the
Gulf Research Center. He holds a master's degree from
Yale University.
In 2007-10 he was director of the Gulf Research Center Foundation in Geneva. He has also been adjunct professor of international relations at
The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center and professor at the
European University Institute.
His research focuses on the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa and on global energy issues.
References
External links
faculty page.
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Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Yale University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)