About

In addition to running Schulkes Consulting, Piotr is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., where he researches sovereign wealth funds, renewable energy implementation, and the economic transitions in oil reliant states.

He earned a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford in 2021, his thesis analysing the causes and consequences of the high level of bank concentration in Saudi Arabia’s financial sector.

Piotr regularly writes on the Middle East’s financial sectors and renewable energy projects. In February 2024 he published a chapter in an edited volume on state-led investment in renewables in Oman and Saudi Arabia.