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Jerry (J) W. Wright, Jr. is an economist, export and trade advisor, international development programming consultant, and workforce development specialist, as well as analysts and publishers on the Middle East regional political economy. He was awarded post-doctorate grants by the Fulbright Commission, two with USAID-American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellowships, the Jesse Ball DuPont Foundation, and two research grants from the Louis L. Goldstein Fund. He holds a Doctorate of Philosophy: Economics from Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, a Master of Arts in Middle East Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelors of Business and Finance from the University of Evansville, Evansville, IN. He has published over 30 articles and chapters as well as five edited collections. He is current editing a collected edition series that will be a 20th anniversary review of the Middle East since the political and economic impediments to Middle East peace that have arisen since the original publication of the series by MacMillan and Routledge.

The following provides an illustrative lists of his publications:

Edited Collections:

Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process: Historical Contexts, Macmillan, 2002

Economic and Political Impediments to Middle East Peace: Critical Questions and Alternative Scenarios, edited with Dr. Laura Drake, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2000

The Political Economy of Middle East Peace: The Impact of Competing Trade Agendas, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 1999, reprinted in 2001

Business and Economic Development in Saudi Arabia, edited collection, Macmillan, 1996

Saudi Arabia: Change and Tradition, edited collection, Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission to the United States and the Smithsonian Institution, 1993

Special Journal Editions:

Economic Inequality and Public Policy, Journal of Intergroup Relations, Winter 1996-1997

Muslim Attitudes Toward Islamic Finance, International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, 1996

Journal Articles:

“Determining Human Capital Impacts on Economic Growth,” (with Francisco M. Hernandez) Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 2015

“Multi-Country Survey of Attitudes towards the Treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace,” with Susan Rogers, African Journal of Business Management, 2014

“Djibouti: Using Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Workforce Planning to Drive Growth in the Horn of Africa,” Special Country Feature, Africa Journal, summer, 2007

"Mainstreaming Trade at USAID: The Case of Egypt,” Foreign Service Journal, 2000

“Keynes Antagonist: Correspondence between Alvin Hansen and Dennis Holme Robertson,” with Anthony L. Higgins and J.W. Wright, American Economist, 1998

“Economic Inequality and the Choice of Self-Employment among Americans of Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian Descent,” Journal of Individual Labor Rights, 1997-1998

“A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Personality Traits among Arab and American Business Students” with Jennifer Hozik, Social Behavior and Personality, 1996

“Values Representations among Arab and American Business Students,” Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1995-96

Islamic banking in practice: problems in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Working Paper, University of Durham, UK, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1995

“Social Distance, Discrimination, and Political Conflict,” Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1995

“American Trade and Islamic Banking in the Israeli Occupied Territories, International Journal of Commerce and Management, 1995

Social Distance, Discrimination, and Political Conflict: Arab-Ethics in American, Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1994-1995

“Planned Miscommunication: The Arab-American Business Dialogue,” Journal of Language for International Business, 1993

“Had Mercury Learned English in an Arab University, could he have gotten a job?’ Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1992

“The American Student Market in Europe—A New Frontier,” Journal of College Admissions, 1991

Over the past 20 years, Dr. Wright has lectured or presented seminars at international organizations including USAID, UN agencies, and ministries in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and at numerous universities in the US and abroad including American University in Dubai, American University in Sharjah, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Cambridge University, Durham University, Edinburgh University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Indiana University, Qatar University, Rutgers University, Sultan Kaboos University, University of Chicago, and Yale University.