Dr. Manal Shehabi 

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Dr. Manal Shehabi is an Oxford-based applied development economist with globally recognized expertise in development and political economy at the intersection of energy, economic, climate, and resource sustainability. She is an Associate Faculty Member at the Oxford's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Seminar Leader (Economics for Public Policy) at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She is also Founding Director of SHEER Research & Advisory; Member of ANU's Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions at The Australian National University; and Research Associate of the Centre for Climate & Energy Policy, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. She is also an elected Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum. She is a Consultant to the International Energy Agency and an Expert with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and others. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Energy Futures Initiative-KAPSARC Joint Research on energy transitions and decarbonization. 

A polyglot, she combines academic research with experience in industry and policy. Her research was featured in global policy debates on energy, water, climate, and economic policy. For example, she was invited to address the 1st High-Level Ministerial Roundtable on Just Transition at COP28 in the UAE to help ministers and delegates prepare for the text and activities of the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP), operationalized at COP28. She was also invited to address the 1st Dialogue of the JTWP in the 2024 Bonn Climate Conference SB60. Her research is published in journals (including Energy Modelling, Energy Policy, & Environmental & Resource Economics), books, and policy reports. She is lead/co-author of various policy reports (such as IPCC Special Report on the Oceans, UNFCCC, UNICEF, T7 of G7, and T20 of G20). She constructed an economic model of Kuwait a version of which is used by Kuwait's Public Policy Center at the GSSCPD for policymaking. She taught graduate and undergraduate courses and conducted training for policymakers around the globe. She advises policymakers, firms, thinktanks and institutions across the world and in different languages.