A boutique consultancy providing economic analysis on the Gulf Cooperation Council and neighbouring states. In addition to general economic analysis and policy, it has expertise in hydrocarbons, AI, capital markets and geopolitical risk.
Most of our research is confidential, but summaries of articles in our Gulf research service with GlobalSource Partners are accessible and you can also sign up as a guest to access several complementary reports. You can also subscribe to our free Gulf Weekly newsletter on LinkedIn, published every Friday, which includes headlines and a few samples of analysis from the main reports.
For information on this service or for consultancy projects, please reach out to Justin Alexander, the Director of Khalij Economics. He has been analysing the region for nearly two decades, including for The Economist Group, QNB and Qatar's Ministry of Finance. Before focusing on Gulf economics, his prior roles included working with the UN in Iraq and as a UK equity analyst.
Justin occasionally publishes articles and reports for think tanks, including:
The Ukraine Crisis is Vindicating Qatar’s Bold Gas Expansion Strategy (The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington)
The Implications of COVID-19 for the Gulf States’ Development Models (International Institute of Strategic Studies)
Beyond Building: Private Financing, Ownership, and Management of Gulf Infrastructure (The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington)
Research projects underway include:
The Global Competition for Talent: How Does Saudi Arabia Compare with Gulf and Global Peers? (publication forthcoming from the Gulf Research Center).
GCC sovereign wealth funds are preparing for the energy transition. A Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Middle East and Asia, edited by Robert Mogielnicki, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (forthcoming).
Enablers or Obstacles: How migrants relate to Gulf economic visions (paper presented at Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge in July 2023, with publication in a journal pending in 2025).