. Ali Ahmad is a research fellow in Energy Policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a visiting faculty in Energy Studies at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Ahmad’s research and teaching 4 activities cover strategic planning and decision-making associated with national energy systems with focus on the Middle East, energy policy and economics, nuclear security and nonproliferation and the introduction of nuclear power to new markets. A Physics graduate from the Lebanese University in Beirut, Dr. Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Cambridge University.