TRENDS Research and Advisory

Dr. Alexander Cooley

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

Alaa Jumaa Hassan

Researcher, Expert on Middle East Affairs

Omar Al Busaidy

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

Jonathan H. Ferziger

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

Yigal Carmon

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

Mohammed Khalfan Al-Sawwafi

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

Chris Doyle

Non-Resident Fellow, International Relations

Dr. Abdelkader Filali

Non-Resident Fellow, Expert, Middle East Affairs

Dr. Ziad Yagoub 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

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

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

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

Andrew Staniforth

Non-Resident Fellow, Counter Terrorism & National Security

Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner

Director of the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS)

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

Non-Resident Fellow, Professor of International Relations, Shandong University, China.

Dr. Daniel Schatz

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

Professor Klaus Larres

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

Dr. Lorenzo Vidino

Non-Resident Fellow, Extremism and Security

Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli

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

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

Dr. Daniel Kirk

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

Thi Hien Nguyen

Non-Resident Fellow, Founder/Director, SpaceconneX

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

Prof. Yossi Mekelberg

Non-Resident Fellow, professor of International Relations

Anna Mahjar Barducci

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

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. 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

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

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

Asymmetric warfare: The threat of militant groups using drones in the Middle East

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