Steffen Hertog

Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Steffen Hertog is an associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include Middle East and Gulf political economy, political violence and radicalization. Over the last 15 years, he has undertaken a wide range of public policy work in the MENA region on issues like labor market and migration reform, public sector governance and economic diversification, working with institutions like the World Bank, the ILO, the OECD, and ESCWA. His book about Saudi state-building, “Princes, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Oil and State in Saudi Arabia” was published by Cornell University Press in 2011. He is the co-author, with Diego Gambetta, of “Engineers of Jihad: the Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education” (with Princeton University Press 2016) ) and has most recently published a short monograph entitled “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism” (Cambridge University Press 2023).