Director, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Professor of Contemporary Middle East History
Eckart Woertz is director of the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies in Hamburg and professor of contemporary Middle East history at the University of Hamburg. Formerly he was a senior research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), a visiting fellow at Princeton University, and director of economic studies at the Gulf Research Center (GRC) in Dubai. His research interests include the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, energy issues, and food security.