Senior Researcher
Expertise
Politics, economy, and energy in Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf states.
KONDO Shigeto is a Senior Researcher at the JIME Center of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). His expertise includes politics, economy, and energy in GCC countries focusing on Saudi Arabia. He wrote doctoral thesis on Saudi Arabia’s policy on Arab-Israeli conflict and obtained the Ph.D. in Law from Keio University in 2016. Kondo teaches on the contemporary Middle East and international politics as an adjunct lecturer at various universities, and comments frequently in print and television media outlets regarding the foreign policy and economic reform of Saudi Arabia. He was a member of research committee at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) and other research institutes.
2022-present | Secondee, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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2019-present | Senior Researcher, JIME Center, IEEJ |
2015-2019 | Research Fellow, JIME Center, IEEJ |
2011-2016 | Ph.D. in Law, Keio University (Graduate School of Law), Tokyo, Japan |
2008-2011 | M.A. in Law, Keio University (Graduate School of Law), Tokyo, Japan |
2004-2008 | B.A. in International Relations, College of International Studies, University of Tsukuba |