Eckart Woertz, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University
As a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Environmental Institute, Dr. Eckart Woertz focuses on oil, energy, and sustainability in the Middle East. With extensive experience in banking and finance, he offers extraordinary insight on the political economy of the Middle East, including shifts within the region’s financial markets, energy issues, and social impacts of structural policies. Dr. Woertz has particular expertise in food inflation in the Gulf States as well as their agro-investments abroad.
Dr. Woertz is a regular contributor and commentator to major international and regional newspapers such as the Financial Times, Forbes, Der Spiegel, The National and Gulf News. He also appears regularly on Arabic, English and German speaking news channels like Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and BBC. Among his many publications, Dr. Woertz predicted a long-term bull market in the precious metal, and also warned in early 2006 of the following stock market crash in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Dr. Woertz has previously held senior positions in financial service companies in Germany and the UAE, amongst them Delbrück & Co one of the oldest German private banks, and also served as the head of the Economics Department at the Gulf Research Center (GRC) in Dubai, which is regarded as the leading think tank of the Gulf region. He holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies and a PhD in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.
