Jad Baghdadi (Balliol College)
College: Balliol College
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Jad Baghdadi is a political economist and doctoral candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. His research focuses on Syria and Lebanon, exploring themes such as state formation, class relations, sectarianism, market capture, and state-capital relations in the Middle East.
Jad’s doctoral thesis examines the relationship between the state and capital in Lebanon, and how these dynamics reproduce the country’s sectarian and capitalist structures.
Jad has taught Political Economy and Middle East Politics at Oxford. He previously worked as a research analyst at The Economist and held research positions at the LSE Middle East Centre and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. His writing has appeared in various media and policy outlets, covering political and economic developments in the Middle East.
Jad holds an MSc in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies.