HA Hellyer Editor

Robert Springborg is Professor (retd) of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA. Formerly he was Professor of Politics and Director of the London Middle East Institute of SOAS and Director of the American Research Center in Egypt. His publications include Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa (2020), Mubarak’s Egypt (1989) amongst others, and he has worked as a consultant on Middle East governance and politics for USAID, the U.S. State Department, the UNDP, and various UK Government departments. H.A. Hellyer is Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), UK, and a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA. He is also Senior Scholar of the Azzawia Institute in South Africa, Professorial Fellow at Cambridge Muslim College, UK, and adjunct full Professor at the University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation in Malaysia. He has worked for the UK Government and Foreign & Commonwealth Office and his analysis has been published by CNN, the BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Mada Masr and the Guardian.