Aditya Sinha is a prolific voice in the Indian and international media, with a wealth of experience that stretches from policy advisory to scholarl...

Adnan Z Amin is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University....

Afshin Molavi is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and edito...

Aigerim Toleukhanova is an independent journalist from Kazakhstan, a researcher in human rights and press freedom in Central Asia, and a former dig...

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is the founder of Strategy and Rest, a Silicon Valley consulting company, and the author of “Shorter: How Working Less Will R...

Alexa Mena is a writer for the online health and fitness magazine, livehealthy.ae.

Alexandra de Cramer is a journalist based in Istanbul. She reported on the Arab Spring from Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for Milliyet news...

Alkman Granitsas is a communications expert with three decades of experience in international media and public relations. In 2015, he founded Kyklo...

Ann Marie McQueen, based in Abu Dhabi, is a freelance journalist working in digital, print and broadcast media. She reports for a wide variety of o...

Anthony McAuley has been a financial journalist for more than 30 years, working for some of the world’s most respected news organizations, includin...

Arif Rafiq is president of Vizier Consulting, LLC, a political risk advisory company focused on the Middle East and South Asia. He is also a non-re...

Armand Arton is the founder and president of Arton Capital, which publishes The Passport Index. He is a patron of the Sovereign Art Foundation and ...

Azadeh Pourzand is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Siamak Pourzand Foundation, and a PhD candidate in Global Media and Communications at S...

Dr Bastien Varoutsikos is a cultural heritage expert and archaeologist, with more than 12 years of experience in the implementation of heritage pro...

Begum Toprak is a nom de plume of a Turkish journalist living in Istanbul. In the two years to the end of 2019, 74 journalists were arrested in Tur...

Ben Lynfield is the former Middle East affairs correspondent at the Jerusalem Post.

Bruce Clark is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster with a lifelong interest in Greek history and culture. He has worked as a foreign correspondent i...

Burcu Ozcelik is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. She received her PhD from Cambridge's Department of Politics and International S...

Christian Le Miere is founder of Arcipel, a strategic advisory firm based in London and The Hague, which helps organizations understand and adapt t...

Dina Fakoussa is an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations and an expert on Germany’s policies toward the Middle East and Nort...

Dnyanesh Kamat is a political analyst on the Middle East and South Asia. He has worked as a consultant on socio-economic development for government...

Effie-Michelle Metallidis is a technology and media strategist based in Los Angeles. Formerly a journalist based in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, she has re...

Ellen Laipson is the director of the International Security program at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She jo...

Ellen R Wald is a historian, policy expert and business consultant. She is the author of “Saudi, Inc: The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit of Profit and P...

Emily Hawthorne is a Middle East and North Africa analyst at Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence platform based in Austin, Texas, monitoring poli...

Eric Canal Forgues Alter is dean and professor of international law and diplomacy at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.

Faisal Al Yafai is currently writing a book on the Middle East. He is also a frequent commentator on international TV networks such as CNN, the BBC...

Faisel Pervaiz is an analyst on South Asia based in Austin, Texas. He has written extensively on the region's political, economic and security dyna...

Glaire D Anderson is an award-winning author and historian of Islamic architecture, art, and history. She’s the founding director of the Digital La...

Greg C Bruno is the author of “Blessings from Beijing: Inside China’s Soft-Power War on Tibet.” Bruno’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Fo...

Hagar Hajjar Chemali is founder and CEO of Greenwich Media Strategies, which offers communications strategy, media engagement and public-relations ...

Haid Haid is a Syrian columnist and a senior consulting research fellow of the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Program. Previously, ...

Haifa Ahmed AlMaashi is director of geostrategic studies at the Dubai Public Policy Research Centre. Her main areas of interest are: the Yemeni cri...

Hasan Alhasan is a PhD researcher at the India Institute at King’s College London and the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on...

Hasan Selim Ozertem is an Ankara-based political analyst. His research interests are in security, political economy, energy, Eurasia, Russia and Tu...

Hassan Hassan is based in Washington, DC, as a senior fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, where he focuses his research on milit...

Henri J Barkey is the Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the C...

Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He focuses on the Gulf region and Yemen, including on Gulf...

Issandr El Amrani is the North Africa Project director for the International Crisis Group, overseeing the conflict prevention and resolution NGO’s ...

Jalel Harchaoui teaches geopolitics at the Université de Versailles and Université Paris-Est. He also teaches political risk at EDC Paris Business ...

James M Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fa...

Jasmine El-Gamal is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she focuses primarily on Middle East policy, as well as t...

Jean-François Seznec is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Coun...

Jim O’Neill is a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs and served as commercial secretary to the UK Treasury from 2015 to 2016. He is a cross ben...

John B Sheldon is chairman and president of ThorGroup, a Swiss-based consulting and intelligence company serving the security, space and cyberspace...

Jonathan Gornall is an award-winning freelance British journalist, formerly with The Times, who has lived and worked in the Middle East and is now ...

Joseph Dana is editor-in-chief of emerge85, a lab that explores change in emerging markets and its global impact. He was previously Monocle's Istan...

Kaleem Aftab is a film critic, author of the biography “Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It,” and Director of International Programmi...

Kirk H Sowell is the principal of Utica Risk Services, a Middle East-focused political-risk firm. He is a specialist in Arabic-language research, a...

Marc Holtzman is chairman of CBZ Holdings, the largest financial institution in Zimbabwe. He is a former vice-chairman of Barclays and a former pre...

Martin Newland is a British journalist who has launched, co-launched and/or edited three national newspapers on three continents. He is a former ed...

Maysa Jalbout is the founding CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education – a philanthropic initiative with a budget of $1 billion and a...

Melissa Gronlund is a writer on art based in Abu Dhabi and London. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, L’Hebdo d’Art, BOMB, e-flux journal and Th...

Meray Maddah is a doctoral candidate in the Politics and Public Administration Department at the University of Konstanz, in Germany and a researche...

Michael Ayari is the International Crisis Group’s Tunisia senior analyst. He joined the organization in 2011 as a consultant for the North Africa P...

Michael Jennings is Reader in International Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, or SOAS University of London, where he works...

Mohammed Baharoon is the Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center (b’huth).

Dr. Narayanappa Janardhan is director of research and analysis at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi, and a nonresident fellow at th...

Nayan Chanda, formerly editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and founding editor of YaleGlobal Online, is currently associate professor of inte...

Neil Hauer is a security analyst based in Tbilisi, Georgia. His work focuses on the Syrian conflict, particularly Russia’s role; politics and minor...

Nibras Kazimi writes at talisman-gate.com (English) and imarawatijara.com (Arabic). He was formerly a columnist for the New York Sun and Prospect M...

Nick Leech is a writer and qualified landscape architect who specializes in the art, architecture and heritage of the Gulf and wider Middle East. H...

Nickolay E. Mladenov is the Director General of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi and a Segal Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the ...

Nikola Mikovic is a political analyst in Serbia. His work focuses mostly on the foreign policies of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, with special atten...

Nour Samaha is a researcher, analyst and independent journalist based between Beirut and London. She is a former fellow in the Middle East and Nort...

Omar Lamrani is a geopolitical analyst who specializes in conflict analysis and military issues. Previously, he was Senior Military Analyst at the ...

Ömer Taşpınar is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of national-security strategy at the National Defense University in W...

Oussama Romdhani is the editor of The Arab Weekly, a publication dedicated to Middle East and North Africa issues. He served in the past in the Tun...

Rasha Al Joundy is a senior researcher at the Dubai Public Policy Research Center. She specializes on Gulf regional politics and security. She is a...

Reem Kassem conducts research on how art and culture can be used to counter violent extremism, as a PhD candidate at the University of West Scotlan...

Robert Nichols is the managing director for the Middle East and Africa at 3M. Nichols joined 3M in 1987, and began his career in a sales role in in...

Robin Mills is founder of Qamar Energy, established to meet the need for regionally based Middle East energy insight. He is an expert on energy str...

Rym Tina Ghazal is a peace ambassador, thought/youth leader, documentarian, lecturer and author for young readers. In addition, she is an award-win...

Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s po...

Simon Allison is the Africa editor for the Mail & Guardian in Johannesburg. He is also a research consultant for the Institute for Security Stu...

Steve Tsang is professor of Chinese studies and director of the China Institute at SOAS, University of London. He is also an associate fellow of Ch...

Suha Ma’ayeh is a journalist based in Amman, Jordan. Her work has been published in Foreign Policy and CTC Sentinel. She also reports for The Wall ...

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent initiative established to contribute to the intellectual devel...

Vanand Meliksetian works for Netherlands Enterprise Agency, where he helps develop protocols for the deployment of hydrogen in cities and towns. He...

Dr Victoria Stewart-Jolley is a senior research fellow at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy. She worked as a legal advisor on electoral processe...

Yavuz Baydar is a senior journalist, editor, podcaster and analyst in Turkish and international media. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of Ahval...

Yun Sun is director of the China program and co-director of the East Asia program at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC. Her expertise is in Chin...