Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Dr. Karen E. Young is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, where she leads the Economics and Energy Initiative. She frequently briefs corporate and investment audiences on geopolitics, energy security, and the geoeconomics of the Gulf. She previously served as a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has taught at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Prince Sultan University in Riyadh. From 2009 to 2014, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University of Sharjah. Young is the author of The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States (2023) and The Political Economy of Energy, Finance and Security in the United Arab Emirates (2014), and editor of Energy Transitions of the Middle East (2024) and GCC Hydrocarbon Economies and Covid (2023). Her research and commentary have appeared in leading academic and policy publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Lawfare, Journal of Arabian Studies, and Middle East Policy. She has testified before Congress, and her work and analysis have been featured by NPR, CNBC, CBS, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other international media. Her research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Fulbright Program, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the U.S. State Department, among others. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Co-teaching a course on Managerial Economics in the women's MBA program in fall 2024, with a focus on the macroeconomics of the energy transition and impacts on firm level decision making
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Washington DC-Baltimore Area