RESEARCH
An Associate Fellow at the UK thinktank Chatham House since September 2015, Peter is a veteran political economy researcher who merges his skills as a political analyst with his lengthy experience of building large datasets to augment anecdotal evidence developed while working as a financial and economic journalist in London and Dubai. At MEED, the Middle East Economic Digest, he helped build the framework for a new data product, MEED Operations & Maintenance, and worked closely with data analysts at the publication's flagship business intelligence product, MEED Projects.
Since moving to freelance work, Peter has continued to work on data-led research projects for MEED. Between 2011 and 2013 he worked with the Yemen Forum at the UK think tank Chatham House on a series of public and private research projects that underpinned conventional political economy analysis with bespoke datasets tracking the key players in the country's political economy. Peter has acted as a political economy consultant to DfID, the UK government's Department of International Development, the UN's Economic and Social Commission on West Asia, the World Bank and a number of private clients.
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK
With Chatham House
May 2016
Yemen: Stemming the Rise of a Chaos State
February 2015
Yemen and the Saudi-Iranian 'Cold War'
September 2013
Yemen: Corruption, Capital Flight and Global Drivers of Corruption
October 2011
Yemen's Economy: Oil, Imports and Elites
Saferworld
October 2015
Federalism, conflict and fragmentation in Yemen
Gerlach Press
October 2015
Rebuilding Yemen: political, economic and social challenges.
Chapter: Corruption in Yemen: Maintaining the Status Quo?