Dr. Khwlah Almutair is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Oil & Gas program. Her professional interests lie in financial market analysis, policy interventions, sovereign wealth fund strategies, and economic stability. Dr. Almutair has over 15 years of professional experience, including research and academia. She has taught many economics classes at the University of Massachusetts. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she specialized in finance, econometrics, and labor economics.