Bilal Wahab was the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute until July 2024, where he focused on governance in the Iraqi Kurdish region and in Iraq as a whole. He has taught at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani, where he established the Center for Development and Natural Resources, a research program on oil and development. He earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University; his M.A. from American University, where he was among the first Iraqis awarded a Fulbright scholarship; and his B.A. from Salahaddin University in Erbil. Along with numerous scholarly articles, he has written extensively in the Arabic and Kurdish media.
Education
Ph.D., George Mason University; M.A., American University; B.A., Salahaddin University
