Joseph A. Kechichian

Joseph A. Kechichian is the CEO of Kechichian & Associates, LLC, a consulting partnership that provides analysis on the Gulf region, and a fellow at UCLAs Gustav R. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies. He received a doctorate in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 1985, where he also taught (1986-88) and served as assistant dean in international studies (1988-89). From 1990 to 1996, he was an associate political scientist at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation (receiving a RAND Presidents Award for Research Excellence in 1995) and a lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles. The recipient of a Smith Richardson Foundation grant for 1998-99, Dr. Kechichian is the author of Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (Santa Monica: RAND, 1995) and is completing a study tentatively titled The National Security of Saudi Arabia.