TRENDS Research and Advisory

Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali

CEO and Founder of the New TRENDS Research and Advisory

Dr. Stephen Blackwell

Scientific Advisor - Director of Strategic Studies

Fahad Essa AlMahri

Director of the Global Barometer Department

Mohammed Hamdaoui

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

Dr. Kristian Alexander

Senior Fellow / Director of International Security & Terrorism Program

Prof. Mohammed Ahmed Fyadh

Senior Fellow / Training and Development Advisor

Dr. Mohammad Abu Ghazleh

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy & International Relations Program

Dr. Mohamed Bouchikhi

Senior Fellow, Political Affairs and Islamist Movements

Khalid Abd Al-Hamid

Senior Fellow/ Director of Political Islam Program

Elyazia AlHosani

Resident Fellow/ Head of TRENDS Council for Young Researchers

Sumaya Al-Hadhrami

Resident Follow/ Head of Conference Department

Prof. Fawzi Al Ghazali

Senior Fellow / Technical Affairs Advisor

Dr. Victor Gervais

Director of Military & the Future of Warfare Program

Sama Sultan Al-Shawi

Legal Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Dubai, UAE

H.E. Dr. Ali bin Tamim

Chairman of Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center at the Department of Culture and Tourism

Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghathami

Professor of Criticism and Theory at King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Al-Mulla

Media Advisor to the Kuwait Journalists Union, Kuwait

Mukesh Kapila

Professor Emeritus, Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs University of Manchester - United Kingdom

Jacob Kurtzer

Director of Humanitarian Agenda Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) - United States

Prof. Uzi Rabi

The Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies

Dr. Nimrod Goren

The Founder and Head of Mitvim, the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies

Oluwabunmi Ajilore

Lead Advisor, Pharos Advisors Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) West Africa, Nigeria

Olcay Ünver

Professor of Practice, Arizona State University, USA

Dhesigen Naidoo

Chief Executive Officer, Water Research Commission (WRC), South Africa

Rose Armour

Head of AUS Sustainability American University of Sharjah, UAE

Sarah Al-Harthey

Business Development Manager, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Jeremy M. Martin

Vice President, Energy & Sustainability, Institute of the Americas, United States of America

Dr. Kobayashi Amane

Senior Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics (IEEJ), Japan

Dr. Elai Rettig

Senior Researcher, the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center, University of Haifa, Israel

Tatiana Antonelli Abella

Founder and Managing Director, Goumbook, United Arab Emirates

Dr. Anna Pobol

Director for Cooperation with EU and EaP countries, The Scientific and Technological Association, Belarus

Nada Alwadi

PhD Candidate in International Affairs, focusing on Digital Governance in GCC, Bahrain

Federica Leonetti

International Business Advisor, The Enterprise Europe Network, Italy

Khadija BENDAM

Head of Nuclear & Radiological Safety and Security Audits CNESTEN, Morocco

Velina Tchakarova

Velina Tchakarova, Director, The Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES), Austria

Deborah Edirisinghe

Founding Director, Child Action Lanka - Sri Lanka

Dr. Fatima Alsebaie

Research Fellow, Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (DERASAT) , Bahrain

Deya’ Leonard Dresner

Founder & Executive Director, Leonard Education Organization, USA

Dr. John Hardy

Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies, Rabdan Academy

Marc Ostwald

Chief Economist & Global Strategist, ADM Investor Services International, United Kingdom

Dean Baker

Senior Economist, Center for Economic & Policy Research - United States

Wilson Erumebor

Senior Economist, Nigerian Economic Summit Group- Nigeria

Prof. Graeme Leach

CEO & Chief Economist Macronomics Consulting, United Kingdom

Dr. Paul Rivlin

Senior Research Fellow at Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies - Israel

Dr. Zora A. Sukabdi

Senior Lecturer at University of Indonesia

Prof. Aigul Zeinoldanova

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Academy of Public Administration - Khazahstan

Tetiana Miskova

Director of the State Institution of "Export Promotion Office Ukraine" - Ukraine

Prof. Dr. Morten Huse

Professor Emeritus in Organisation and Management BI Norwegian Business School Oslo, Norway

Lena Freidorfer-Kabashi

Chair for Vocational Education Institute for Educational Science at the University of Zurich - Switzerland

Dr. Sanjay Nadkarni

Innovation & Research , United Arab Emirates

Dr. Ivan V. Danilin

Head of Department of Science and Innovation Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

William (Bill) Kemp

Co-Founder / CEO United Space Structures (USS)

Dr. Farouk El-Baz

Retired Director Center for Remote Sensing Boston University

Dr. Henry R. Hertzfeld

Co-Director of the Space Policy Institute and Research, Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Jean-Jacques Tortora

Director of the European Space Policy Institute

Dr. Nidhal Guessoum

Professor of Physics and Astronomy American University of Sharjah

Dr. Yarjan Abdul Samad

Senior Research Associate and Senior Teaching Fellow

Dr. Bleddyn Bowen

Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester

Abdulelah Darandary

Economist and senior researcher analyst at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC).

Anthony Bartzokas

Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics

Andrea Muratore

Geopolitical Analyst, Osservatorio Globalizzazione

Yushu Liu

Director of Macro Research Department, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY). He is an expert on Artificial Intelligence and China's Digital Economy.

Porter Anderson

Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives m Frankfurter- Germnay

Mr. Hector Pollitt

Director, Head of Modelling Cambridge Econometrics - UK

Dr. Dan Mitchell

Chairman, The Center of Freedom and Prosperity - USA

Scientific advisor of the Master in International Energy at the Paris School of International Affairs of SciencesPo and Adjunct Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Dr. Simeon Djankov

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics - USA
Ex-deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Bulgaria

Bader Alabdulqader

Senior Economist- Sharqia Development Authority , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Irina Tsukerman

Vice President of Timberwolf Phoenix/Republic Underground, and an adviser to London-based International Justice Organization

Dr. Giovanni Giacalone

Analyst, Europe desk, ITCT

Brig Barker

President/CEO of Red Rock Global Security Group - USA

Matthew RJ Brodsky

Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy - USA

Dr. Tewfik Aclimandos

Director of the European Studies Unit at the Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies

Noor Dahri

Executive Director at ITCT, UK

Jason Campbell

Project Researcher, RAND Corporation - United States of America

Dr. Jonathan Schanzer

Senior Vice President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies - Unites States of America

Dr. Maxim Fedorov

Skoltech Vice-President for Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Modelling, Professor at Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering

Nader Kabbara

Management Consultant for Artificial Intelligence at AI Directions - UAE

Dr. Patrick D. Bangert

Vice President of AI at Samsung SDS

Prof. Ernesto Damiani

Senior Director at Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Khalifa University

Dr. Karthik Nandakumar

Associate Professor in the Computer Vision department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Rand Waltzman

Deputy Chief Technology Officer at RAND Cooperation

Ramez ALKARA

Senior Vice President at EverteamGS-Intalio

Dr. Malek Ben Salem

Principal Advisor, Digital Transformation and Emerging Technologies at TheDigitaLeap - USA

Dr. Noha Mellor

Academic , UK

Dr. Jonathan Matusitz

Associate Professor, Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central Florida - USA

Dr. Najat Al-Saied

Independent Researcher in Political Communication and Development , KSA-USA

Dr. Nicholas Ryder

Professor of Financial Crime University of the West of England - UK

Yotam Feldner

Director, MEMRI-TV - Israel

Dr. Hani Nasira

Writer and Political Expert, The Arab Institute for Studies - Egypt

Akil Yunus

Research Manager, IMAN Research - Malaysia

Jassim Mohamed

Head of the European Center for Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Studies – Germany and the Netherlands

Dr. Amr Mahmoud ElShobaki

expert at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies

Chris Hamill-Stewart

Journalist at Arab News London Bureau

Dr. Alexandre del Valle

Commentator, columnist, researcher, consultant, and university professor

Muhammad AlAraby

Senior researcher specialized in global affairs and security - The Cairo School for Liberal Sciences and Arts- Egypt.

Tal Heinrich

Israeli journalist and news anchor based in New York, USA

Abdelmonem Said Aly

The Chairman of the Board and CEO of Al-Masry Al-Youm Publishing House in Cairo, Egypt

Mr. Hamad Al-Kaabi

Editor-in-Chief at Alittihad Newspaper - UAE

Dr. phil. Iyad Al-Dajani

Fellow Researcher at the Jena Center for reconciliation studies, International Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa - Germany

Ahdeya Ahmed

Chairman of the Board of Directors Bahraini Journalists Association - Bahrain

Dr. Geoffrey Kemp

Senior Director of Regional Security Programs Center for the National Interest - USA

Corey Gil-Shuster

Director at International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Tel Aviv University - Israel

Ghaith Al-Omari

Senior fellow, The Washington Institute Former Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine - USA

Dr. Pascal Boniface

Director Institute for International and Strategic Affairs - France

Neta Livne

Editor-in-chief Yedioth Ahronoth - Israel

Ambassador Ahmed Al Hosani

Ambassador - UAE

Ambassador William Rugh

Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - USA

Dr. Marc Gopin

Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution , George Mason University - USA

Michal Divon

News Anchor and Reporter - USA

Pete Clifton

Editor in Chief, Press Association - UK

Michael Holtzman

President, SEC Newgate - USA

Jeffrey Hiday

Director Office of Media Relations, RAND Corporation - USA

Andrew Elnatan

Senior Director Regulatory Affairs, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative - United States of America

Dr. Nawal Al Kaabi

Chief Medical Officer , Chair of the SEHA infection Control Committee - Sheikh Khalifa Medical City - UAE

Dr. Melita Vujnovic

Head, WHO Office, the Russian Federation

David Zigdon

CEO, MigVax , MIGAL Galilee Research Institute - Israel

Dr. Jill Horowitz

Executive Director of Strategic Operations , Laboratory of Molecular Immunology - Rockefeller University, USA

Dr. Jeronim Capaldo

Economic Affairs Officer, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD - Switzerland

Dr. Robert B. Koopman

Chief Economist and Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division, World Trade Organization - Switzerland

Dr. Jean Fares

Economist, and Senior Advisor to the UAE government

Prof. Maurizio Barbeschi

Adviser to the Executive Director, World Health Emergencies Programme (WHE), The World Health Organization (WHO) - Switzerland

Prof. Gulfaraz Khan

Professor of Viral Pathology and Chair Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology - United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Maqsoud Kruse

Writer and International Lecturer - The United Arab Emirates

Prof. Yossi Mekelberg

Non-Resident Fellow, professor of International Relations

Dr. Cheng Li

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

Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan

Non-resident fellow

Yigal Carmon

Non-Resident Fellow,President and Founder Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) - Israel

Dr. Hussein Ibish

Senior Resident Scholar, The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington - USA

Dr. Alexander Cooley

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

Francesco Buscemi

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr. Ilai Saltzman

Non-Resident Researcher, University of Maryland.

Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli

Non-Resident Fellow, Emerging Technologies and Transformation of Warfare - Switzerland

Omar Al Busaidy

Non-Resident Fellow, Author and International Affairs Analyst - UAE

Nikolay Surkov

Alaa Jumaa Hassan

Researcher, Expert on Middle East Affairs

Pejman Abdolmohammadi

Non-Resident Fellow, expert in Iranian Politics

Yousef Juma Al-Haddad

Non-resident fellow - Editor-in-Chief Nation Shield Journal - United Arab Emirates

Vanisha Sampat

Non-Resident Fellow - expert in sustainability

Dr. Hamdy A. Hassan

Non-resident fellow - Professor of Political Science

Hippolyte Eric DJOUNGUEP

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

Jonathan H. Ferziger

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

Mridutpal Bhattacharyya

Deputy Chief Innovation, Officer Indian Society of AI & Law.

Mohammed Khalfan Al-Sawafi

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations

Scott D. Smith

Non Residents Fellow - Economic Expert-Economic Studies.

Dr. Mamdouh G. Salameh

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, The Economics of Oil and Energy

Tamás Kozma

Non-Resident Fellow, Energy Geopolitics

Chris Doyle

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations

Dr. Abdelkader Filali

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, Middle East Affairs

Dr. José Ronaldo Souza Júnior

Director Macroeconomics Policy and Research, IPEA - Brazil

Dr. Ziad Najjar

Non-Resident Fellow, expert in public health

Neil Boister

Non-Resident Fellow, Transnational Criminal Law and Organized Crime

Sara Zeiger

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations & Counter-Terrorism

Christopher Coker

Non-Resident Fellow, Warfare, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency

Anne Aly

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter Terrorism

Andreas Schleicher

Non-Resident Fellow, Education and Economy

Ambassador Alberto Fernandez

Non-Resident Fellow, Middle East Politics and Media

Geoffrey Harris

Non-Resident Fellow, EU Politics and International Relations

Estella Carpi

Non-Resident Fellow, Social Anthropology

Dr. Naved Bakali

Non-Resident Fellow, Education and Youth Identity

Jaron Rothkop

Non-Resident Fellow, Sustainable Technology

James Prince

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter Extremism and Civil Society Development

Ibrahim Bakri

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations & Development

Kamal Dib

Non-Resident Fellow, Political Islam

Nadia Crevecoeur

Non-Resident Fellow, Gender, Conflict & Security

Mona Alami

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council

Michiel den Hod

Non-Resident Fellow, Middle East Politics

Michael Patchett-Joyce

Non-Resident Fellow, Law and Business

Piotr Dutkiewicz

Non-Resident Fellow, Russian & Eurasian Politics & Society

Richard Woodward

Non-Resident Fellow, International Economics

Yong Wang

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

Abdullah bin Khaled al-Saud

Non-Resident Fellow, Terrorism and Security

Scott Englund

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter-Terrorism

Andrew Staniforth

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter Terrorism & National Security

Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner

Director of the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS)

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. Nath Aldalala’a

Professor of International Relations at Shandong University, China

Dr. Daniel Schatz

Non-Resident Fellow at TRENDS and an International Security Program Fellow with New America in Washington D.C.

Dr. James A. Russell

Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School

Dr. Justin Dyer

Political Science at the University of Missouri

Prof. Klaus Larres

Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina - United States of America

Dr. Nourhan El-Sheikh

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

Federico Bonaglia

Deputy Director of the OECD Development Center

Dr. Lorenzo Vidino

Non-Resident Fellow, Extremism and Security

Dr. Wen Wang

The Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies

Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, The Economics of the Arabian Gulf Countries

Ahmed Alturbak

Lead Economist, Government Entity, Abu Dhabi

Abdullah Al-Junaid

Bahraini writer and political analyst , Bahrain

Dr. Hae Won Jeong

Non-Resident Fellow - Assistant Professor of International Relations at Abu Dhabi University

Prof. Ding Long

Non-Resident Fellow - Professor of Middle Eastern studies

Prof. Steffen Hertog

Associate professor in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics

Prof. Bernard Foing

Senior scientist, European Space Agency (ESA) Director, ILEWG EuroMoonMars, Netherlands

Fatima Al-Shamsi

Space Policies Specialist at the UAE Space Agency

Eng. Amer Al Ghafri

Senior Director of Space Engineering Department at Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, UAE

Alla Razuvaeva

Founder and Director-General, Prosto Cosmos LLC, Russian Federation

Dr. Daniel Kirk

Dean of the College of Education and a Professor of Education at Winona State University, USA

Dr. Abhishek Saurav

Economist - Private Sector Development and Investment Climate, The World Bank Group, Washington DC

Dr. Simonetta Di Pippo

Director, UNOOSA

Thi Hien Nguyen

Non-Resident Fellow, Founder/Director, SpaceconneX

Dr. Patrick Lenain

Aِِssistant Director at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Dr. Renny Castaneda

Non-Resident Fellow, The Acting Chair of the Bachelor Program on Security and Strategic Studies of the American University in the Emirates

Dr. Rabah Arezki

Non-Resident Fellow, Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region (MNA), The World Bank - USA

Dr. Peter Martinez

Executive Director, Secure World Foundation

Luc St-Pierre

Chief of Space Applications division at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Masayuki Goto

Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Space Cubics

Zhenhai Cui

Researcher at ChongYang Institute for Financial Studies , Renmin University of China

Dr. Manal Shehabi

OIES-KFAS Supernumerary Fellow Oxford Institute for Energy Studies United Kingdom

Dr. William R. White

Former Deputy Governor , The Bank of Canada

Dr. Sandrine Kergroach

Deputy Head of Division The OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) France

Dr. Patrick Schröder

Senior Research Fellow in the Energy, Environment, and Resources Department at Chatham House

Claudia Wallner

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert in Security & Terrorism

Dr. Sodfa Mohamed Mahmoud

Researcher specializing in Latin American and Caribbean Affairs

Dr. Anne Speckhard

Director , International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism - United States of America

Anna Mahjar Barducci

Project Director at the MEMRI Russian Media Research Project, Washington-Jerusalem

Dr. Jennifer M Gidley

Non-Resident Fellow - Psychologist, educator, and academic researcher

Bianca Cefalo

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

Dr. Qamar-ul Huda

Analyst with Gulf States Analytics - USA

Dr. David Meyer

Associate Professor of Security and Global Studies and Program Director, Master of Art Diplomacy, The American University in the Emirates (AUE)- UAE

Dr. John Bruni

Non-Resident Fellow - Founder/CEO of SAGE International, Australia

Talmiz Ahmad

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, Political Islam, Energy Security

Dr. Sapan S. Desai

Non-resident Fellow, Healthcare Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Vascular Surgery

Anastasia Chisholm

Research Intern at Gulf State Analytics

Ahmad Askar

Non-Resident Fellow - expert in African Affairs

Dr. Ian Taylor

Non-Resident Fellow - Professor in International Relations and African Political Economy

Molly Ellenberg

Non-Resident Researcher - Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) - USA

Yossi Klein Halevi

Senior fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute - Israel

Francis Aubee

Non-Resident Fellow - expert in African Affairs

Neha Dewan

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations and Security

Simon Lacey

Non-Resident Fellow, Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade

Victoria Samson

Non-Resident Fellow - Director for Secure World Foundation - Washington D.C. - USA

Ahmad Shami

Resident Fellow

Miriam Tekuzener

Tour Educator on 'Israel Experience' Educational trips.

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China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific: Truth vs Pretensions

Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali

Dr. Stephen Blackwell

Dr. Fatouh Haikal

Dr. Ashraf Al Eisawy

Fahad Essa AlMahri

Mohammed Hamdaoui

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