Justin Dargin
FROM:
I am originally from Michigan.
HEROES:
Ralph Bunche and Nicola Tesla
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT:
My book about the struggle for Middle Eastern economic/political integration, which I am in the final stages of completing.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT TEACH AT THE SUMMIT:
I would like to teach about how the Gulf countries are utilizing their natural resources to foster rapid economic development. I intend to clarify how the Gulf countries are moving away from the economic/political 'periphery' to the 'core' of the global system.
SOMETHING YOU HOPE TO LEARN AT THE SUMMIT:
I hope to learn about innovative ways that other professionals are impacting the world.
SOMETHING YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH IN YOUR WORK:
Attempting to conceptualize the large 'patterns' of this historical economic/social shift that is occurring in middle tier resource rich developing countries.
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY:
I enjoy to help others and discuss interesting and innovative ideas.
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU ANGRY:
The lack of initiative to combat global poverty, while the means are there.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY:
My family has been quite formative in forming my understanding of the world. They instilled in me a desire at a young age to understand the world in which I live.
AN IDEA TO MAKE THE 30SUMMIT EVEN BETTER:
Have an annual summit, which is held in a different cosmopolitan city every year.
BIOGRAPHY:
Justin Dargin is a research fellow at the Dubai Initiative — Harvard University, where he researches energy policy in the Persian Gulf region. He specializes in carbon trading, oil and gas production in the Gulf, and the legal framework surrounding the Gulf energy sector. During his graduate legal studies, he worked in the legal department at OPEC. Justin was also a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies where he studied Middle Eastern Gas Issues, and pioneered the first major substantive work on transnational gas trade in the form of the Dolphin Project. Justin is co-director of the registered non-profit, InterIntel, which is active in spreading renewable energy access in the developing world. He is working on his first book related to the Gulf energy sector, and he is fluent in Spanish, English, and Arabic.
