Mhamed Biygautane

GRM 2017 Workshop: Private Delivery of Infrastructure Services in the GCC: The New Political Economy of PPPs

Associate - Center for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash University

Mhamed Biygautane is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies at Monash University in Australia where he specializes in infrastructure public-private partnerships in the context of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. He is also a Non-resident Fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG) in Dubai, Visiting Research Fellow at the American University of Kuwait, and a regulator contributor to Oxford Analytica where he provides strategic analysis on the political-economic development of the GCC and the wider MENA region. He has published numerous peer-reviewed studies on public-private partnerships, privatization, knowledge management and training in the public sector, and administrative reform within public sector organizations in the GCC. Mr. Biygautane has also authored and co-authored various studies and reports for organizations such as the World Bank, OECD, UNDP, the United Nations, and Oxford Analytica. With Dr. Khalid Al-Yahya, Mr. Biygautane co-authored a series of policy 8 briefs on public management and innovation in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Biygautane has presented at more than 60 international conferences such as the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia, Academy of Management in Canada, International Project Management conference in Dubai and the Gulf Research Meeting at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. His work has appeared in journals such as Thunderbird International Business Review, Public Works Management and Policy, and Digest of Middle East Studies. His work has also been featured in international and regional media such as BBC, Dubai One, the New York Times and other news outlets.