NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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in the Russian Oil Industry and External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
along with other publications on energy, economic diversification, GulfAsia, and Russia-Gulf relations. Dr. Sim has also lectured on these issues
as a guest speaker at INSEAD, Middle East Institute Singapore, Gulf
Intelligence, the National Defense College, and the Emirates Center for
Strategic Studies & Research. She holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University
and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.
Noosha Uddin is a Ph.D. student at the University of California Santa
Barbara, focusing on Political Economy and Energy Politics. Her prior
research examines labor migration trends of working-class laborers in
South and Southeast Asia to the Arabian Gulf and the transactionary relationships between sending and receiving states. She earned BAs in Political
Science and in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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in the Russian Oil Industry and External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
along with other publications on energy, economic diversification, GulfAsia, and Russia-Gulf relations. Dr. Sim has also lectured on these issues
as a guest speaker at INSEAD, Middle East Institute Singapore, Gulf
Intelligence, the National Defense College, and the Emirates Center for
Strategic Studies & Research. She holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University
and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.
Noosha Uddin is a Ph.D. student at the University of California Santa
Barbara, focusing on Political Economy and Energy Politics. Her prior
research examines labor migration trends of working-class laborers in
South and Southeast Asia to the Arabian Gulf and the transactionary relationships between sending and receiving states. She earned BAs in Political
Science and in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.