
Alexis Montambault-Trudelle
Job Title
PhD Student

Research interests
Background
Research interests
My research draws on Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to explore the effects of internal political dynamics on sovereign wealth management. I investigate how intra-elite dynamics, regime structures and state-society relations in the post-2015 Saudi political landscape shape the sovereign wealth fund's institutional design and behaviour, whether in the Kingdom or across the global financial market. I am particularly interested in the political economy of Gulf states and the multiple facets surrounding the relationship between states and the financial market.
Supervisors
Qualifications
- Ph.D Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh (2019- )
- M.A. Études politiques apliquées, Université de Sherbrooke
- B.A. Études politiques appliquées, Université de Sherbrooke
Other Courses and Experience
- Research Assistant, Transformation of Public Debt Management, P.I. Dr. Charlotte Rommerskirchen,
- Quantitative Methods for Causal Inference and Policy Evaluation, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, 2021
- History of Economic Thought: Human Behaviour and Economic Activity, Oxford Summer School, University of Oxford, 2017
Publications
'The Public Investment Fund and Salman's state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia', Review of International Political Economy, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2022.2069143
"Les politiques commerciales du Conseil de Coopération du Golfe face au concept de solidarité arabe", Centre d'études sur l'intégration et la mondialisation, 2018 (online access)
Conferences & Presentations
BISA/International Political Economy (IPEG) Annual Workshop, IPE in (Post-) Pandemic Times, 27th-28th January 2022, University of Warwick. Paper: A King's Ransom: How Saudi domestic politics shape sovereign wealth fund choices
Warwick Critical Finance Workshop, 24th September 2021, University of Warwick. Paper: The Politics of Profits: Sovereign Wealth Funds, Regime Change and Political Interests in Saudi Arabia
Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS) 86th General Conference (2018)Paper: Rente pétrolière et solidarité arabe: le cas du Conseil de Coopération du Golfe.
Guest lecturer, undergraduate course (2018): "The Geopolitics of Energy", Université de Sherbrooke
Guest lecturer, undergraduate course (2018):"The Politics of Economic Decision", Université de Sherbrooke