Role
Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House. Non-Resident Associate Fellow, NATO Defence College. Previously Senior Research Fellow and Head of the MENA Programme at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), until 2023.
Bio
He earned his PhD from the Department of War Studies at King's College London, with research on the diplomatic initiative of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom on the Iranian nuclear issue. Before joining RUSI, he worked at the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Oxford Research Group, focusing on European foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and Iran.
From 2015 to 2023, she worked at RUSI, where she became a Senior Research Fellow and head of the MENA program. Since 2020, she has been a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defence College. Between 2023 and 2026, she worked as a Senior Analyst at Control Risks and is currently an Associate Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, based in Abu Dhabi.
His research and analysis focuses on Middle Eastern security and geopolitics, with a focus on the domestic and foreign policies of Iran and Iraq, armed groups, non-proliferation, and the spread of drones . He regularly contributes to international media and provides analysis on politics, security, and operational risk in the region.