Giacomo Luciani teaches at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and at the University of Geneva. In 2010−13, he was Global Scholar at Princeton University. His work has focused on the political economy of MENA. With Hazem Beblawi, he edited the 1987 book The Rentier State, which is frequently cited as one of the origins of the concept. He is editor of the recently released Handbook of International Energy Economics.