Colby Connelly

Colby Connelly serves as the Director of the Economics and Energy Program and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute since October 2021. Currently, Colby holds the position of Senior Analyst at Energy Intelligence, where work commenced in May 2020. Prior experience includes serving as a Contributor for Middle East & North Africa Country Risk at IHS Markit from September 2012 to May 2020, and as a Research Associate in Political Economy at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington from April 2019 to April 2020. Colby has also worked as a Project Coordinator at Kaplan and as a Technical English Instructor at Laureate Vocational Saudi Arabia. The academic background includes a Master of Arts in Global Security Studies with a concentration in Energy Security from Johns Hopkins University, alongside a Graduate Certificate in International Nongovernmental Organization Management from James Madison University and a degree in International Affairs focusing on the Middle East.