A boutique consultancy providing economic analysis on the Gulf Cooperation Council and neighbouring states.

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 GCC Weekly newsletter on LinkedIn, published every Friday, which includes headlines and 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:

• (معهد دول الخليج العربية في واشنطن) الأزمة الأوكرانية تعزز استراتيجية قطر التوسعية في إنتاج الغاز

• 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:

• Enablers or Obstacles: The role of migrant workers in Gulf economic visions (paper presented at Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge in July 2023, with publication in a journal pending; happy to share a copy on request).

• The role of Gulf sovereign wealth funds in mitigating the impact of the energy transition (chapter for an upcoming book; happy to share the draft and feedback is welcome).