Luay Al-Khatteeb

Luay al-Khatteeb is Joint Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and the Brookings Institution (Foreign Policy Programme), focusing on energy security, geopolitics and economy in the Middle East. He is also the founder and director of the Iraq Energy Institute (IEI) and serves as senior advisor to the Federal Parliament of Iraq for energy policy and economic reform. His work experiences span over 20 years with various IOCs, investment banks, management consulting firms and multilateral organizations, and he is a frequent commentator on issues related to energy and political economy in the Middle East region. Luay earned his Honours Degree from Kingston University (UK), studied his PhD on Petroleum Policies at the University of Salford (UK), and completed his professional training in Petroleum Exploration & Production at the Shell Commercial Academy in the Netherlands.