TRENDS Research and Advisory

Richard Woodward

Non-Resident Fellow, International Economics

Richard Woodward is Associate Professor in International Business at Coventry Business School. He is a political economist specializing in global governance institutions (especially the OECD), diplomacy, and soft power in world politics. His current research has two strands: The first examines the OECD’s evolving role in global governance, especially in the context of the challenges... read more

Chris Doyle

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations

Chris Doyle is director of the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). He has worked with the council since 1993 after graduating with a first-class honours degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. He has organized and accompanied numerous British parliamentary delegations to Arab countries. read more

Ibrahim Bakri

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations & Development

Ibrahim Bakri is Academic Coordinator of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. A Penn graduate, Ibrahim has served as a summit coordinator at the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. In this capacity, he helped coordinate two Middle East and North Africa Think Tank Summits, focusing on regional dialogue and communication. Bakri... read more

Geoffrey Harris

Non-Resident Fellow, EU Politics and International Relations

Geoffrey Harris is Distinguished Teaching Fellow Vesalius College, Brussels, and Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He was an official of the European Parliament from 1976-2016. His postings included Deputy Head of the European Parliament’s Liaison Office with the US Congress (2012-2016) and Head of the Human Rights Unit within the Secretariat General of... read more

Piotr Dutkiewicz

Non-Resident Fellow, Russian & Eurasian Politics & Society

Professor Dutkiewicz is Director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and a member of the Valdai Discussion Club Advisory Board. He has published and commented widely on matters of regional and political development in Russia, as well as Russia’s position in the global system. read more

Dr. Stephen Blackwell

Director, Research and Strategic Studies

Dr. Stephen Blackwell is an analyst, researcher, and writer with more than 20 years’ experience in roles across the think-tank, academic and media sectors. He is the author of a book entitled British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan: King Hussein, Nasser, and the Middle East Crisis, 1955-1958, as well as numerous journal articles... read more

Yong Wang

Non-Resident Fellow, Global Political Economy and Chinese Foreign Policy

Professor Yong Wang is Director of the Center for International Political Economy and Professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of International Political Economy in China: A Global Conversation (co-edited with... read more

Dr. Ahmed R. El Safty

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, Economic Affairs

Dr. Ahmed R. El Safty has over 20 years of experience working for think-tanks, policy-making institutions, and regional organizations. He has provided technical support and consultation in economic policy management for policymakers in 12 MENA countries, and participated in teaching and training at both academic and executive levels. Dr. El Safty has a Ph.D. degree... read more

Dr. Abdelkader Filali

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, Middle East Affairs

Abdelkader Filali is a Ph.D. from the School of Political Studies. Ottawa University, Canada read more

Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali

Scholar & Researcher

Dr. Mohammad Al-Ali, the Director General of TRENDS Research & Advisory, is a researcher and an Emirati author, specializing in strategic and political affairs. Dr. Al-Ali received a Ph.D. in Criminology from Mutah University. He obtained a Master of Arts in Diplomacy from the American University in the Emirates, and a Bachelor’s in media, radio,... read more

Emina Osmandzikovic

Researcher

Emina Osmandzikovic is an expert on human rights, forced migration and displacement, and big data analysis. She has worked for the UNHCR Protection Unit in Jordan and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she conducted extensive field research on highly vulnerable refugee communities and returnees. Emina has also worked for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (France),... read more

Kamal Dib

Non-Resident Fellow, Political Islam

Kamal Dib is a research analyst and media monitoring expert who focuses on political, security, economic, and geostrategic investment risks in the Gulf, Middle East, and North Africa regions. He has 18 years of experience in the GCC across a range of responsibilities, including working in the diplomatic community. Dib’s research interests focus on Political... read more

James Prince

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter Extremism and Civil Society Development

James Prince is President and co-founder of the Democracy Council, a leading nonprofit, nonpartisan international development organization that has managed programs in developing countries around the world. He has testified as a Middle East policy expert in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He has widely published on issues relating to civil society in... read more

Dr. Ashraf Al Eisawy

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert in Political and Strategic Affairs

Dr. Ashraf Al Eisawy, an expert in the Gulf region affairs, has worked in several Gulf and Arab research centers. He specializes in security and strategic studies. Dr. Al Eisawy has published many books, most notably The American Policy in the Gulf Region After September 11 Attacks, A Comparative Study of the Gulf Wars; Impact... read more

Mohammed Abdelraouf

Non-Resident Fellow, Environment and Economy

Dr. Mohammed Abdelraouf is environment researcher with many think-tanks in the Middle East and an elected global focal point of Science and Tech. Major Group of UNEP and 10YFP. Dr. Raouf has a doctorate in Environmental Sciences (Environmental Economics and Accounting) from the Ain-Shams University in Egypt (2003) and has undergone advanced training in Environmental... read more

Jaron Rothkop

Non-Resident Fellow, Sustainable Technology

Jaron Rothkop is President of The Last Kilometer; a not-for-profit focused on clean energy policy and technology. He was President and CTO of ZeroBase Energy, a leading designer, and manufacturer of solar hybrid power systems and clean energy microgrids for the governments and commercial/industrial customers. He has served as a technology consultant and director of... read more

Michiel den Hod

Non-Resident Fellow, Middle East Politics

Ambassador Michiel den Hond began his career with the UN High Commissioner on Refugees, moving to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs dealing with the international dimension of asylum as an element of refugee policy. He has been the Head of the Middle East and North-Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the... read more

Sara Zeiger

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations & Counter-Terrorism

Sara Zeiger is Manager, Department of Research and Analysis, at Hedayah and co-leads a capacity-building program on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and education for teachers. She supports the management of the Department’s resources and programs, including Counter-narrative Library, non-resident Fellowship Program, and International CVE Research Conference. Sara focuses her research on several CVE topics, including... read more

Neil Boister

Non-Resident Fellow, Transnational Criminal Law and Organized Crime

Professor Neil Boister is Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is the author of An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law (OUP, 2012) and editor of The Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law, with Robert Currie (Routledge, 2014). In 2014, Prof. Boister received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the... read more

Mona Alami

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council

Mona Alami is a French-Lebanese journalist and analyst examining political, security, and economic issues in the Arab world, namely in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. Her research focus is on non-state armed actors in these countries. She is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, and a Fellow... read more

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Egypt beyond economic stabilization: the road to sustainable growth

Social, ethical responsibility of educational institutions in countering extremism and terrorism: the UAE model

Egypt beyond economic stabilization: the road to sustainable growth

Potential impact of COVID-19 on the vulnerable in the Middle East region

Extremism and religious identity in the age of globalization

Social, ethical responsibility of educational institutions in countering extremism and terrorism: the UAE model

Egypt beyond economic stabilization: the road to sustainable growth

Potential impact of COVID-19 on the vulnerable in the Middle East region

Extremism and religious identity in the age of globalization

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Richard Woodward

Chris Doyle

Ibrahim Bakri

Geoffrey Harris

Piotr Dutkiewicz

Dr. Stephen Blackwell

Yong Wang

Dr. Ahmed R. El Safty

Dr. Abdelkader Filali

Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali

Emina Osmandzikovic

Kamal Dib

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TRENDS lecture highlights soft security issues among major challenges facing West Asia

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Social, ethical responsibility of educational institutions in countering extremism and terrorism: the UAE model

Social, ethical responsibility of educational institutions in countering extremism and terrorism: the UAE model

Forced demographic change as a geopolitical tool in post-war Syria

Forced demographic change as a geopolitical tool in post-war Syria

Using history to explain Trump

Using history to explain Trump

Understanding the violent and non-violent extremism grey zone

Understanding the violent and non-violent extremism grey zone