Dr Neil Partrick

Position: Associate Fellow

Neil Partrick was Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for four years (1998-2002), and remains an associate fellow at the Institute to this day. He had a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2002-2007, Neil was the Middle East and North Africa Editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit.  From 1993-95, Neil Partrick worked in Jerusalem as an editor and researcher with a Palestinian institute, Panorama, and from 1995-98 worked at the House of Commons as a research analyst.

Neil has given presentations on Middle Eastern security, political and economic issues at two events organised by the Royal United Services Institute, London (on Iraq's economic prospects, and Iran's nuclear weapons respectively); the Institute for Political and International Studies in Tehran; Royal Institute for International Affairs, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu Dhabi; the Middle East Association in London; and at conferences and meetings organised by the UK-based NGO, the Next Century Foundation. Neil has contributed to the RUSI Whitehall Paper No. 59 "War in Iraq", Newsbrief (Iraq, January 2003, August 2004), the RUSI Journal (book reviews on Oman and Kuwait 2002 and 2003), and the RUSI Iraq portal (April 2004), spoken on Iraq's economic prospects at a one day RUSI conference in mid-2003, given a presentation on Iran at a RUSI Middle East Forum (October 2003), and spoken at conferences in the UK and in Iran in a joint RUSI/EIU capacity. Prior to 2002, Neil spoke at conferences and events in the Middle East, the US and Europe on security-related issues affecting the Gulf and the Levant, and had a number of articles published on political and security developments and risks in a number of Middle Eastern countries. These included articles on Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the RUSI Newsbrief and the RUSI Journal from 1998; Jane's Sentinel (The Gulf), 1998-99; and the bi-monthly Middle East International from 1995-97.

Neil continues to appear regularly on the international broadcast media, commenting on political and economic issues affecting Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as on the Middle East Peace Process. 

 

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