Dr Frauke Heard-Bey is an historian, political scientist, author and researcher. She is the author of From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates, considered a classic text on the Gulf.[1]
She is widely recognised as one of the most influential historians and researchers on the United Arab Emirates, its tribes and its social and political development leading up to the establishment of the UAE as a nation. She was an active participant in the establishment of the Abu Dhabi based Centre for Documentation and Research, now the UAE National Archive, where she has worked since 1969.