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Professor H.A. Hellyer is a British scholar of geopolitics, security and geoeconomics. He works on the wider Arab world, Europe and Southeast Asia, and advises governments, investors and broadcasters on what comes next. He is Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI International, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies; Professorial Research Associate, SOAS Middle East Institute; Senior Fellow for Geopolitics and Security, Center for American Progress; Senior Advisor for Geopolitics, ODI Global.

Professor H.A. Hellyer, FRHistS, FRSA, is a British scholar of geopolitics, security and geoeconomics. He is a consultant to leading international strategic advisory and political-risk firms, briefing their corporate, investor and government clients. He holds four affiliations: Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI International, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies; Professorial Research Associate, SOAS Middle East Institute; Senior Fellow for Geopolitics and Security, Center for American Progress; Senior Advisor for Geopolitics, ODI Global. Previously at Carnegie, Brookings, the Atlantic Council, Harvard and Cambridge. He read law at the University of Sheffield, took a master’s in international political economy there, and completed a PhD at the University of Warwick. He is the author or editor of ten books on Egypt, Muslims in Europe, Islamic scholarship, human rights and counter-terrorism, and his analysis appears in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times and War on the Rocks. He comments on air for CNN, the BBC, Al Jazeera English and Deutsche Welle.

Professor H.A. Hellyer, FRHistS, FRSA, is a British scholar of geopolitics, security and geoeconomics. For more than twenty years he has helped governments, boardrooms and broadcasters understand how events in the wider Arab world, Europe and Southeast Asia shape one another, and what is likely to come next. He works from a single premise: regional change does not stay regional, but reshapes the wider international order. He holds four affiliations: Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI International, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies; Professorial Research Associate, SOAS Middle East Institute; Senior Fellow for Geopolitics and Security, Center for American Progress; Senior Advisor for Geopolitics, ODI Global. Previously at Carnegie, Brookings, the Atlantic Council, Harvard and Cambridge. Born in the Gulf and educated in Abu Dhabi, Cairo and London, he read law at the University of Sheffield, took a master’s in international political economy also at Sheffield, and completed a PhD in a multidisciplinary social sciences and humanities programme at the University of Warwick as the recipient of a UK Economic and Social Research Council scholarship. His research examines strategic competition and the pursuit of strategic autonomy by middle powers, institutional and technological change in defence and foreign policy, political risk, geoeconomics and energy security, and the interaction between domestic political change and foreign policy. He is the author or editor of ten books on Egypt, Muslims in Europe, Islamic scholarship, human rights and counter-terrorism, including A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt (Oxford University Press) and, with Zaha Hassan, Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel (Oneworld Academic). His analysis has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time and War on the Rocks, and he provides on-air analysis for CNN, the BBC, Al Jazeera English and Deutsche Welle during major geopolitical developments. He advises governments, sovereign investors, financial institutions and boards on political risk and regional strategy, and designs and chairs high-level policy dialogues across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He is a consultant to leading international strategic advisory and political-risk firms, briefing their corporate, investor and government clients.