This paper provides a commentary on the value of knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The semantics of knowledge provides the backdrop to the paper. The paper also dwells on the characteristics of the contemporary economy powered by knowledge and the frameworks that govern and manage it. The role that information and communication technologies have played in facilitating...

Strategic Trends Series

Dr. Victor Gervais

1 Jun 2021

Emerging technologies and the future of warfare

A consensus has grown among experts and policymakers that emerging technologies have the potential to change the character of war. Indeed, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, data processing, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies seem to be taken warfare into new and unexpected directions. As with previous era of rapid progress in science and technology, military organizations will be...

Policy Paper

Dr. Daniel Kirk

23 May 2021

Global teaching and learning in a post-COVID future

Abstract Education is a global endeavor, bringing governments and the private sector together to provide education across the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. However, education provision, funding, and status vary and are subject to increasing global inequity and opportunity. The global Covid pandemic has shone a light on education, highlighting weaknesses in the sector and the ability of some educationalists...

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Director, Harriman Institute; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science , Barnard College; Columbia University , Central Asian Studies

Dr. Alexander Cooley is the Director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, and Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. 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

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

Prof. Wael Saleh

Senior Fellow - Political Islam Program

Prof. Wael Saleh is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies, the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada, and Senior Research Advisor at the Institute of Religious Studies, Montreal University. He obtained a Master’s degree in Applied Political Science with excellence from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, in 2011 and a Ph.D.... read more

Bianca Cefalo

Non-Resident Fellow, Space Systems Thermal Product Manager, Airbus Defense and Space UK

Bianca Cefalo is a Space Systems Thermal Product Manager who enables Airbus Defense and Space UK to create and implement disruptive thermal management solutions for Next Generation Telecommunication Spacecraft. A graduate in Aerospace and Astronautics Engineering from the University ‘Federico II’ of Naples, Italy, Bianca has spent nearly a decade between Germany and the UK.... read more

Dr. Cheng Li

Non-resident fellow & Director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center

Dr. Cheng Li is director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li is also a distinguished fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto. He is the author of the new book Middle Class Shanghai Reshaping US-China Engagement (May 2021), and... read more

Mohammed Hamdaoui

Head of Economic Studies/ Director of Energy & Natural Resources Program

Mohammed Hamdaoui is a member of the Economic Studies Department at the TRENDS Research & Advisory. He is an energy, metals, and mining industry expert with over 15 years of experience analyzing different aspects of the industry, including supply and demand, price forecasting, cost analysis, resources monetization, market studies, and natural resources strategies. He conducts... read more

Sumaya Al-Hadhrami

Resident Follow/ Head of Conference Department

Sumaya holds a Master’s Degree in Environment: Dynamics of Territories and Societies from Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, UAE, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. She is one of the founders of the first Khaleejy Students Union at the University of Minnesota, which associates with the social events of the... read more

Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin

The Executive Director of the IMF, United Nations Special Envoy for the 2030 Agenda , The UN Former Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, UN Relations, and Partnerships , The World Bank

Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin is an economist with more than 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He is the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda. Mohieldin was Egypt’s minister of investment from 2004-2010, and more recently, served as the World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda,... read more

Nadia Crevecoeur

Non-Resident Fellow, Gender, Conflict & Security

Nadia Crevecoeur is Senior Program Assistant at Women In International Security (WIIS). Her research interests include measuring peacekeeping success, the intersection of gender and security, and the youth, peace, and security agenda. Nadia has experience working with the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office in the special victim’s unit. Most recently, Nadia Crevecoeur is Senior Program... read more

Hippolyte Eric DJOUNGUEP

Non-Resident Fellow, specialist in Terrorism and Security related issues

Hippolyte Eric DJOUNGUEP is an independent researcher specializing in peace, conflict, and security studies and a Geopolitical Analyst for the French magazine Le Point, BBC, Sputnik News France, AfricaPresse Paris, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of several books including Cameroun – Crise Anglophone: Essai D’analyse Post Coloniale (2019), Géoéconomie D’une Afrique Émergente... read more

Andreas Schleicher

Non-Resident Fellow, Education and Economy

Andreas Schleicher is Special Advisor on Education Policy to OECD’s Secretary-General and Director for Education and Skills. He also provides strategic oversight over OECD’s work on the development and utilization of skills and their social and economic outcomes. Before joining the OECD, he was Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA).... 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

Fahad Essa AlMahri

Director of the Global Barometer Department

Fahad Issa Al-Mahri is the Director of the Global Barometer Department at TRENDS Research & Advisory. Mr. Al-Mahri has worked in several agencies and institutions, including the Ministry of State for Federal National Council Affairs. Prior to joining TRENDS, Al-Mahri worked as Deputy Director of the Opinion Polls Department at the Emirates Center for Strategic... read more

Jonathan H. Ferziger

Non-resident senior fellow, The Atlantic Council , American-Israeli Journalist - Israel

Jonathan H. Ferziger is an award-winning American journalist and researcher who reported for Bloomberg News and United Press International (UPI) from Israel, the Arabian Gulf, and Southeast Asia. Based in Jerusalem, Ferziger is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Atlantic Council in Washington after serving for two decades as the Senior Political Reporter for Bloomberg... read more

Francesco Buscemi

Non-Resident Fellow

Francesco Buscemi is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and a member of the Research School on Peace and Conflict at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His research is situated at the intersections of peace and conflict studies, political geography, and critical security studies. His main interests include... read more

Anne Aly

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter Terrorism

Dr. Anne (Azza) Aly is Associate Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, with a focus on radicalization, counter-terrorism, and countering violent extremism. Anne leads the Countering Online Violent Extremism Research (COVER) Program. Anne is the author of four books, including Terrorism and Global Security: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan). She was appointed to the... read more

Dr. Nourhan El-Sheikh

Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

Dr. Nourhan El-Sheikh is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. She was the Director of the Center for American Studies – Cairo University (2009-2011) and Cofounder and Director of Youth Studies Center for Preparation of Leaders. She also served as the Head of Advanced Training... read more

Rahaf Al Khazraji

Resident Fellow

Rahaf Al Khazraji graduated with a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from Zayed University. Rahaf has gained knowledge in the field of foreign relations while interning at the government sector. She has also expanded her inter-personal skills through interning in the Corporate Social Responsibility Department at a multinational company. Rahaf Al-Khazraji joined Trends Research and... read more

Anastasia Chisholm

Research Intern at Gulf State Analytics

Anastasia Chisholm is a Research Intern at Gulf State Analytics and a postgraduate student at King’s College London studying Conflict, Security, and Development. read more

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Decades of political mismanagement and foreign intervention causing Lebanon’s imminent collapse

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