Assistant Professor
E-mail: Khalid.Alyahya@dsg.ae
Languages: Arabic, English
Specializations: public management, political economy, organizational development, human capital utilization

Dr. Khalid Al-Yahya is Assistant Professor at the Dubai School of Government. Before joining DSG, Dr. Al-Yahya was assistant professor of public affairs in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University (USA), where he taught courses on comparative public management and policy, organization development, political economy, and public governance and globalization. Before that he held a fellowship at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark. His research is interdisciplinary and comparative in nature, and focuses broadly on the dimensions, antecedents, and consequences of public governance and development, and currently collaborating with Harvard’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University in writing a series of case-studies on innovations in networked governance, administrative reform and institutional development in the Arab world. He is also a member of cross-national research teams studying "trust and decision behavior" and the "convergence-divergence of governance practices" in GCC countries, Europe and the U.S. Some of his work has appeared in international academic and professional conferences and publications. Dr. Al-Yahya received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut’s Department of Political Science with emphasis in Public Administration and Comparative Politics. He has also earned certificates in Political and Social Research from the University of Michigan and practical experience in international development policy at the United Nations.

Working Papers

January 2008
"The Over-Educated, Under-Utilized Arab Professional: Why Doesn’t Human Capital Development Bring Desired Outcomes?"