Middle East and North Africa
Research on the Middle East and North Africa focuses on the changing geopolitical landscape and the current and emerging conflict and security challenges in the region.
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Dr Burcu Ozcelik
Senior Research Fellow, Middle East Security
International Security
Urban Coningham
Research Fellow and Course Lead
RUSI International
Dr Neil Melvin
Director, International Security
International Security
Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Dr Jessica White
Acting Director of Terrorism and Conflict Studies
Terrorism and Conflict
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Fellows
Ali Ansari
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Professor Sultan Barakat
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in post-war reconstruction and state-building
Oliver Blake
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Dr Tobias Borck
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Lieutenant General Sir Nick Borton KCB DSO MBE
RUSI Distinguished Fellow
The Rt. Hon. Alistair Burt
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, International Security
Ambassador Jonathan R. Cohen
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, International Security
Dr Stephanie Daher
RUSI Associate Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict
Professor Zaid Eyadat
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Dr Tom Fisher FRSA
RUSI Associate Fellow
Justyna Gudzowska
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Professor Stig Jarle Hansen
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in Islamism in the Horn of Africa and the Al-Shabaab group
Dr Jack Harding
Associate Fellow
Air Vice-Marshal (Ret’d) Mike Hart CBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr H A Hellyer
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Nicholas Hopton
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, International Security
Paulina Izewicz
Associate Fellow
Dr Reinoud Leenders
RUSI Associate Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict
Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE
RUSI Associate Fellow, International Security
Dr Talal Mohammad
RUSI Associate Fellow, International Security
Dr Julie Norman
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Jason Pack
RUSI Associate Fellow; Host of the Disorder Podcast
Sir William Patey KCMG LLD
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Nicola Pedde
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict
Dr Samuel Ramani
RUSI Associate Fellow, International Security
Stephen Reimer
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Jonathan Rugman
Senior Associate Fellow
Baraa Shiban
RUSI Associate Fellow, International Security
Arthur Snell
RUSI Associate Fellow
Michael Stephens
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
