Yahia Said is Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Revenue Watch Institute (www.revenuewatch.org) and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. He specializes in the political economy of oil with a focus on the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East.

Mr. Said travels frequently to Iraq to work with government officials, members of parliament, oil industry experts, academics and activists. He led a Revenue Watch program on the management of Iraq’s hydrocarbon wealth in 2005 and 2006, which involved key players from across the sector.

Over the same two years, on a secondment from Revenue Watch, Yahia led the UN technical assistance team in support of the drafting and implementation of the International Compact with Iraq, a comprehensive medium-term program for political and economic reform.

Mr. Said has numerous academic and policy publications, including the recently published Oil Wars, co-authored with Mary Kaldor and Terry Karl.

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