H. A. Hellyer

Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Program
Dr. H.A. Hellyer is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He serves as a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, and as a Cambridge University fellow.
Education

BA (Hons) in Law, University of Sheffield
MA (Hons) in International Political Economy, University of Sheffield
PhD, University of Warwick

Languages
  • Arabic
  • English
  • French

Dr. H.A. Hellyer, FRHistS, is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He serves as a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, and as a Cambridge University fellow. His research focuses on geopolitics, security studies, political economy, and belief in the Middle East, the West, and Southeast Asia.

Dr. H.A. Hellyer has more than 20 years of experience in governmental, corporate advisory, and academic environments in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Elected as fellow (FRHistS) of the Royal Historical Society, and fellow (FRSA) of the Royal Society of Arts in London for his scholarly and public impact, he was appointed as deputy convenor of the UK Government’s Taskforce on tackling radicalisation, and as the first Economic and Social Research Council fellow in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  

Previously a nonresident fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, he served as the first Arab world-based senior practice consultant at the Gallup Organisation, where he analysed public opinion data worldwide. Formerly senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Centre for the Middle East, he was also appointed as fellow at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Malaysia. His insights on current events are regularly sought by the international media networks such as CNN and the BBC, with op-eds for publications like the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Guardian, Politico, the Financial Times, New Straits Times, and Daily News Egypt.

Dr. Hellyer has also held academic attachments at noted institutions including the University of Warwick (UK), where he was the research equivalent of an associate professor; the American University in Cairo as a professor of law; the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as research associate; and as visiting professor at RZS-CASIS at the University of Technology in Malaysia. His publications in his specialist subject areas include 7 books, more than 20 book chapters, journal articles, and monographs to various academic presses.

Dr. Hellyer had a cosmopolitan childhood between the West and the wider Arab world, working between the two throughout his career, along with significant time spent in Southeast Asia. His degree in law was read at the University of Sheffield’s School of Law, with an advanced degree in international political economy at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Politics. Following those degrees, he completed a multidisciplinary PhD in the social sciences at the University of Warwick, as a UK Economic and Social Research Council scholar.

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