Dr. Jean-Francois Seznec
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Released 21 March 2004
Dr. Jean-Francois Seznec
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Dr. Jean-Francois Seznec is an Adjunct Professor at the Middle East Institute in Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He lectures often about international financial markets and Middle East affairs in Europe and in the United States, and has 25 years experience in international banking and finance, ten years of which were spent in the Middle East, including six years in Bahrain.
Dr. Seznec holds a B.A. from Washington College, an M.I.A. from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. He has published a book and numerous articles on the financial markets of the Gulf and on oil and Islamic banking. A frequent guest and lecturer at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Dr. Seznec serves on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch, the finance committee of the Middle East Studies Association, and the Board of the American Bahrain Friendship Society.