Adeel Malik

Globe Fellow, Economies of Muslim Societies, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Associate Professor in Development Economics, University of Oxford

Professor Malik’s research focuses on the political economy of development with a regional focus on Middle East and Pakistan. He uses an empirically rigorous, historically informed, and policy-relevant approach to addressing the big questions in political economy. Professor Malik’s research combines rigorous empirical methods with hand-collected data on firms, political families, and religious institutions. An emerging strand of his research seeks to enhance our understanding the political economy of authoritarian rule in Muslim societies. In this regard, he is currently researching on the politics of trade liberalization in Muslim societies, the impact of political dynasties on economic development, the interplay between religion, land, and politics in Pakistan, and the impact of exceptional institutional arrangements in frontier regions on conflict. Professor Malik’s most recent contribution to the field is a co-edited volume, Crony Capitalism in the Middle East: Business and Politics from Liberalization to the Arab Spring, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. His research has featured in the CNN, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, the New York Times, Washington Post, Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. His research articles have been published in reputed journals, such as the Journal of European Economic Association, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Historical Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, World Development, Review of International Political Economy, and Modern Asian Studies.