Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His research spans the history, political and international political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States and their changing position within the global order. Coates Ulrichsen is the author of six monographs and the editor of three volumes about the Gulf States, including Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era (Hurst, 2011), The Gulf States in International Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and, most recently, Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States (Hurst, 2023).
Prior to joining the Baker Institute in 2013, Coates Ulrichsen has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, worked at the London School of Economics prior to joining the Baker Institute in 2013, and was also an Associate Fellow with the Middle East North Africa Program at Chatham House between 2012 and 2021.
