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About
Hossa Almutairi is a Principal Fellow in the Energy Macro and Microeconomics Program at KAPSARC, specializing in energy economics, oil markets, and climate policies. She played a pivotal role during Saudi Arabia’s G20 Presidency as the Sherpa for Think20 (T20) and co-chaired the task force on sustainable energy, water, and food systems. Previously a faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, her research has been featured in leading journals. Dr. Almutairi is also a co-recipient of the 2023 OPEC Award for the Best Energy Research Paper. Her work advances insights into sustainable energy transitions and climate solutions.
Publications
12 November 2024
Pandemic, Ukraine, OPEC+ and Strategic Stockpiles: Taming the Oil Market in Turbulent TimesWith a simple decomposition method, we estimate the monthly shifts in global oil demand and non-OPEC+ supply since 2010. We find evidence that during the January 2017 to December 2023 period, OPEC+ attempted to stabilize the price of crude oil well below the values assessed by market...
24 June 2024
Decarbonizing Saudi Arabia’s Residential Sector: Designing Behavioral Interventions for Efficient and Sustainable Energy Consumption
There is a consensus in the literature regarding the significant role of behavioral change in reducing the level of residential energy consumption. However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the most effective mechanisms and instruments with which to promote energy-efficient acti...
28 May 2024
Managing the Oil Market Under Misinformation: A Reasonable Quest?This paper examines the type and quality of information that OPEC needs to stabilize the oil market. We extend our previous structural model, in which OPEC makes potential mistakes in judging the size of market shocks, to now include the possibility that OPEC misestimates how the mar...
08 June 2023
Assessing Climate Mitigation Benefits of Public Support to CCS-EOR: An Economic AnalysisGovernment support for CCS-EOR projects is sometimes contested on the grounds that the resulting increase in oil production undermines their environmental benefits. Addressing this concern requires determining the effects of implementing CCS-EOR on global CO2 emissions. This paper pr...
23 September 2022
Resilience of Saudi Arabia’s Economy to Oil Shocks: Effects of Economic ReformsWe assess the extent to which the implementation of Saudi Vision 2030 policies enhances the Saudi economy’s resilience to oil price and production shocks, and to the productivity of tradable and non-tradable goods. We extend Blazquez et al.’s (2021) dynamic stochastic g...
19 August 2020
Sectoral and Economy-Wide Effects of Domestic Energy Price Reforms in Saudi ArabiaThis paper simulates the sectoral and economy-wide consequences of deregulating energy prices in Saudi Arabia. Our analysis is based on KAPSARC’s general equilibrium energy model (KEMGE), a new hybrid computable general equilibrium model (CGE). The model examines the effects of full ...
