Anas Iqtait
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, Australian National University
Anas Iqtait is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics and the Political Economy of the Middle East at the Australian National University's Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. He holds a PhD in the Political Economy of the Middle East from ANU, an MA in International Development Policy from Seoul National University (South Korea), and a BS in Financial Economics from Methodist University (United States). Before undertaking his PhD research, Anas accumulated a wealth of professional experience in the Middle East. He was engaged in the financial services industry in the United Arab Emirates, managing a portfolio of leading public and private equity firms based in the Middle East. Additionally, Anas worked in the economic development field in Palestine, contributing to projects with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Oxfam, and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). He is a co-founder and the chief editor of the Near East Policy Forum at ANU, and serves as a non-resident scholar with the Middle East Institute in the United States.
Areas of Interest:
- Economic Development Policy
- Taxation and Fiscal Policy
- Geoeconomics
- Financial Technology
Education:
- PhD, Political Economy, The Australian National University, 2020.
- Masters, International Development Policy, Seoul National University, 2014.
- Bachelor, Financial Economics, Methodist University, 2010.
Experience:
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics and the Political Economy of the Middle East, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University, January 2022-Present.
- Lecturer, International Business and Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, February 2020 - December 2021.
- Lecturer, International Political Economy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, February 2019 - November 2020.
Latest Publications:
- Iqtait, A., 2022. Funding and the Quest for Sovereignty in Palestine. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Iqtait, A., 2021. The Palestinian Authority Political Economy: The Architecture of Fiscal Control. In Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (pp. 249-270). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Iqtait, A., 2019. The Political Economy of Taming the Palestinian Authority. In Palestine: Past and Present (pp. 145-175). Nova Publishing.
- Iqtait, A., 2017. The Palestinian Authority and the Rentier State. Siyasat Arabiya, (26), pp. 55-66.
