Dr. Alexis Antoniades is Professor, Director, and Chair of International Economics at Georgetown University in Qatar. A Fulbright scholar with a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University, he is an expert on global markets and a leading authority on the economies of the Gulf countries. His current research is on big data, AI, and labor markets. Among other grants, Dr Antoniades is the recipient of a $1,050,000 grant to undertake the first micro-study on the economies of the Gulf Countries and an $867,000 grant to conduct sentiment analysis on Arabic chatter on twitter. Prof Antoniades previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at Princeton University, where he was the recipient of the prestigious Niehaus Fellowship. In his seventeen years in Qatar, Dr. Antoniades frequently advises the leadership of both public and private sector organizations.