[2] Seznec is also the founder and managing director of the Lafayette Group LLC, a US-based private investment company.
He later returned to academics to complete a Master of Arts and Philosophy Doctorate in Political Science from Yale University in 1994.
He has been a senior advisor for the Petroleum Finance Company (PFC) in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2008 he served on the board of advisers for the Middle East at Human Rights Watch.
His latest book is an edited volume entitled Industrialization in the Gulf: A Socioeconomic Revolution, published by Routledge in 2010.
Seznec has also contributed chapters to many academic books and published scholarly articles in numerous trade publications.