Jim Krane is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

He holds a PhD degree from Cambridge University and is the author of “City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism (2009)”.

A former journalist, he was a correspondent for the Associated Press and has written for publications including the Washington Post, the Wall St. Journal and the Financial Times.

He will be discussing the geopolitical situation in the Middle East, the subject of his latest book entitled "Energy Kingdoms, Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf