Expert – Middle East Policy Platform

Yasser Elnaggar

Culture, Education and Development Economy Expert Foreign Relations Middle East Institute Yasser Elnaggar

April 02, 2020 20:45 pm

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Ambassador Elnaggar is a MEI non-resident scholar and CEO of EN Investment. Previously, he served as CEO of the Chemical Industries Holding Company (HIHC) and prior to that as Egypt’s Principal Deputy Minister of Planning, Monitoring, and Administrative Reform and Principal Deputy Minister of Investment. Ambassador Yasser Elnaggar has more than 25 years of experience as a...

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Zineb Riboua

Atlantic Council Expert Zineb Riboua

March 30, 2020 18:50 pm

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Zineb Riboua is an intern with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs.

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Emily Burchfield

Atlantic Council Civil Society Democracy and Politics Emily Burchfield Expert Security and Counter-Terrorism

March 30, 2020 18:43 pm

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Emily Burchfield is an assistant director at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs, where she manages a wide range of projects aimed at promoting peace and security through scholarship and engagement. Her research focuses primarily on civil conflict, its regional implications, and its impact on US foreign policy. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in

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Atlantic Council Civil Society Democracy and Politics Economy Expert Karim Mezran Security and Counter-Terrorism

March 30, 2020 18:39 pm

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Karim Mezran is director of the North Africa Initiative and resident senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East programs focusing on the processes of change in North Africa. As a distinguished Libyan-Italian scholar, Dr. Mezran brings enormous depth of understanding to the transition in Libya and elsewhere in the region. In addition,

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Mahmoud Khalid

Economy Expert Foreign Relations Mahmoud Khalid Military Affairs

March 26, 2020 18:50 pm

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Mahmoud Khalid is an Egyptian journalist specializing in Arab and international affairs.

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Kelly Petillo

European Council On Foreign Relations Expert Foreign Relations Human Rights Kelly Petillo Youth

March 03, 2020 18:43 pm

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Kelly Petillo is the programme coordinator for Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Her experience stems from roles at various human rights and humanitarian INGOs and UN agencies in Europe and the Middle East, including Crisis Action, the International Crisis Group and the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA).

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Emad Sami

Emad Sami Expert Human Rights

March 02, 2020 19:07 pm

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Emad is an Egyptian researcher

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David Ottaway

Culture, Education and Development David Ottaway Democracy and Politics Expert Foreign Relations Wilson Centre

February 26, 2020 18:40 pm

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Middle East Specialist and Former Washington Post Correspondent David B. Ottaway received a BA from Harvard, magna cum laude, in 1962 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1972. He worked 35 years for The Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe and later as a national security

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Sahar Khamis

Expert Human Rights Media Sahar Khamis Women Affairs

February 20, 2020 21:40 pm

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Dr. Sahar Khamis is an expert on Arab and Muslim media, and the former Head of the Mass Communication and Information Science Department in Qatar University. She is a former Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. She is the co-author of the books: Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave

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Benedikt Barthelmess

Benedikt Barthelmess Economy Expert

February 20, 2020 21:16 pm

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Benedikt is an economist who is currently teaching at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a former visiting researcher at the Cairo-based Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ).

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Mohammed Aly Sergie

Expert Foreign Relations Islamic Movements and Institutions Mohammed Aly Sergie

February 20, 2020 20:31 pm

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Mohammed Aly Sergie is the head of media relations and thought leadership at Siemens in the Middle East. He was previously an editor at Bloomberg News where he shaped coverage of energy and commodities in the region and was the company’s sole reporter in Qatar. Prior to Bloomberg, he was a senior writer/editor at the

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Jonathan Masters

Council On Foreign Relations Expert Foreign Relations Islamic Movements and Institutions Jonathan Masters Security and Counter-Terrorism

February 20, 2020 20:19 pm

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Jonathan Masters leads writers and editors who produce wide-ranging content for CFR.org, including Backgrounders, visual stories, and events. He also writes on foreign policy and national security and his work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, and Bloomberg. Masters has a BA in political science from Emory University and an MA in social theory from the

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