Dr Marc Valeri

Marc Valeri is Associate Professor in Political Economy of the Middle East. He holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Politics and a PhD in political science (2005) from Sciences Po Paris (France). The Director of Exeter's Centre for Gulf Studies for 10 years (2013-2023), his main areas of interest are the social, political and economic transformations in the Gulf monarchies. Another activity of research he is interested in is the issues of stability and consolidation of authoritarianism in the Middle East, and more broadly the question of legitimacy in authoritarian and non-democratic regimes.

Before joining the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) in September 2010, he was 'Jean Monnet' Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence (Italy) in 2005-2006 and then 'Marie Curie' Research Fellow at the IAIS between 2007 and 2009. In 2009-10, he held a position of Teaching Fellow in Politics and Constitutional Law at the University of La Rochelle (France) and was concomitantly Honorary Research Fellow at the IAIS.

He has published extensively on the contemporary politics and political economy of the Gulf monarchies. He is the author, among other works, of Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2017, 2nd ed. revised and updated) and co-editor of Business Politics in the Middle East, with Steffen Hertog and Giacomo Luciani (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2013).

Links to all publications can be found on the 'Research Outputs' tab.