Shlomo Roiter Jesner
President
Patrik Kurath
Executive Vice President
Dr Gad Yishayahu
Senior Fellow, Lead Researcher on Security and Crisis
A scholar and practitioner specializing in Foreign Policy Crisis and crisis management, Dr Yishayahu is presently serving as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of London (City), where he completed his PhD, and a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).  Dr Yishayahu was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on contemporary Foreign Policy Crises and their implications on the discipline of crisis management.
Dr Burcu Ozcelik
Senior Fellow
Burcu specialises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean. She currently serves as Associate Director and Head of the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey department of Audere International. Prior to joining Audere in April 2023, Burcu taught Middle East politics, conflict, and peacebuilding studies at the University of Cambridge.
Previously, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme, conducted research for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has worked in an advisory role for private entities and regional governments on geopolitical risk and security. She has extensive on-the-ground knowledge of the region, and has lived in Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, and the US. Burcu holds an MPhil and PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge.
Joseph Hammond
Fellow
Joseph Hammond is an award-winning journalist, researcher, and consultant. As a journalist, he has reported from four continents on a variety of issues from the Arab Spring to the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2010. His reporting on the MENA region has been published in a number of publications including Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Economist, Forbes, Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown (CNN), Real Clear Defense, Defense Post, Indo-Pacific Defense Forum, U.S. News and World Report, EuroNews, France 24(TV), Al Arabiya, Deutsche Welle (Qantara), and International Business Times, among others.
Mr. Hammond has worked with Global Integrity on transparency research in Egypt as well as energy and commodity issues across the region. He has worked on countering violent extremism (CVE) issues on four continents. He is currently an iDove Fellow with the African Union and is the elected iDove Co-Chair for Europe.
Hammond is a non-resident fellow with Agora Strategy Group, the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Hammond has also been a recipient of fellowships from several think tanks including the National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council of the United States, International Center for Journalists, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America Foundation and the Policy Center for the New South’s Atlantic Dialogue.
Dr Guy Kioni
Fellow
Dr Guy Kioni is a geostrategist and digital transformation expert specialising in critical minerals, securonomics and digital transformation. He is the CEO of Missang, a Westminster-based geostrategic and management consultancy firm focused on critical minerals, international security and digital transformation in the public sector. A recognised public speaker and media analyst, Dr Kioni has contributed insights to EU Reporter, Business Insider, News24, IBTimes UK, the BBC, and other outlets.
In his advisory role at Buenassa — an integrated metals trading start-up based in the DRC — Dr Kioni contributes to the development of a copper and cobalt refinery and strategic metal stockpile. He also leads initiatives that strengthen UK–DRC and US–DRC partnerships, with strategic consideration of the Middle East for trade, investment, and security cooperation. Notably, his work in digital transformation has saved the public sector millions of pounds through ambitious modernisation programmes.
Dr. Javad Heiran-Nia
Current Affairs Analyst
Samir Alhajar
Current Affairs Analyst
Nasser Elamine
Current Affairs Analyst
Malek Jadah
Current Affairs Analyst
Eren Bagis
Current Affairs Analyst
Nazli Tarzi
Current Affairs Analyst
Abdulla Hawez
Current Affairs Analyst
Youssef Sharaf
Current Affairs Analyst
Dr. Hayim Iserovich
Current Affairs Analyst
