About the Author
This paper was primarily researched, written and produced by Peter Salisbury, at the time a senior research fellow with Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme, between October 2016 and December 2017. Peter also researched the accompanying digital map of Yemen’s ‘chaos state’ (https://yemen-map.chathamhouse.org). He is now a senior consulting researcher to the MENA Programme. The former energy editor at the Middle East Economic Digest, Peter has been working on political economy issues in the MENA region since 2008. He has written as a journalist for The Economist, the Financial Times and Foreign Policy; has consulted to the UK’s Department for International Development, the United Nations and the World Bank on political economy studies; and has helped produce a series of films for VICE, a youth-oriented media network.