Mark C Thompson Editor & Author

Mark C. Thompson is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Socioeconomic Program at King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Saudi Arabia. He was previously Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He has published Being Young Male and Saudi (2019) and Saudi Arabia and the Path to Political Change (I.B.Tauris, 2014), and is the co-editor of Policy-Making in the GCC (I.B.Tauris, 2017). Neil Quilliam is Managing Director at Azure Strategy Consulting in the UK and an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, London, UK where he headed the programme’s ‘Future Dynamics in the Gulf’ project. He has served as senior MENA energy adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), senior MENA analyst at Control Risks, London, and senior programme officer at the United Nations University, Jordan.