Biography
Omar Alomran is a recent KFUPM graduate in Software Engineering with a concentration in AI. He was awarded the Oxford/KAUST AI Program Scholarship and an exchange semester scholarship to Georgia Tech.
Omar is an economist who has published research in public policy and international relations, focusing on Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, and has conducted multiple economic studies in collaboration with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Economy and Planning. At Thmanyah, he worked on economic and political coverage reaching millions across the Arab world. He received BCG’s Jeel Tamooh and Misk’s Ignited Voices fellowships and earned national olympiad medals in history, physics, and Arabic.
At Oxford, he plans to pursue the Master of Public Policy to advance evidence-based economic and social reform in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, with a particular focus on labor market and education reforms through a neoclassical framework.