Robert Mogielnicki is a Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington D.C. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, a regional advisor at Freedom House, and a member of the Board of Advisors at Henley & Partners. His monograph, A Political Economy of Free Zones in Gulf Arab States, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2021.