DATE Thursday, March 31, 2011
TIME 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
LOCATION Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
SPEAKERS Christopher Boucek, Karim
Sadjadpour, Jamie Webster,
Hans Timmer, and Uri Dadush
Turmoil in the Middle East has injected huge uncertainty into oil markets. Could unrest spread to Saudi Arabia, Iran, or others in the region and disrupt oil supplies? What will be the consequences for the global recovery? What can policy makers do?

Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour and Christopher Boucek, PFC Energy’s Jamie Webster, and the World Bank’s Hans Timmer will discuss this complex set of political and economic issues. Carnegie’s Uri Dadush will moderate the conversation.

This event is the first in a two-part series on commodity prices and their broader implications. The second event, on April 6, will focus on rising food prices.
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Speakers
Christopher Boucek is an associate in Carnegie's Middle East Program where his research focuses on security challenges in the Arabian Gulf and Northern Africa. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and lecturer in politics at the Woodrow Wilson School. He was also previously a media analyst at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C.

Karim Sadjadpour is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment. He joined Carnegie after four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Washington and Tehran, where he conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials, and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.

Jamie Webster is senior manager for Markets and Country Strategies at PFC Energy.

Hans Timmer is director of the World Bank's Development Prospects Group. Under his management, the Group produces the World Bank’s annual publications, Global Economic Prospects, Global Development Finance, and Global Monitoring Report, in addition to a wide range of monitoring and forecasting publications. Before joining the Bank, Timmer was head of international economic analysis at the Central Planning Bureau (CPB) in the Netherlands.

Moderator
Uri Dadush is senior associate and director of Carnegie's International Economics Program. His work currently focuses on trends in the global economy and the global financial crisis. Dadush previously served as the World Bank's director of international trade for six years and before that as director of economic policy for three years. He has also served concurrently as the director of the Bank’s world economy group over the last eleven years, leading the preparation of the Bank’s flagship reports on the international economy over that period.