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Dr. Ali BAKIR is a research assistant professor in Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Qatar University. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow with the "Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative" - Middle East programs at the Washington-based Atlantic Council. As a senior foreign policy and security analyst and consultant, Bakir has more than 15 years of professional experience working with senior officials, decision-makers, and stakeholders for governmental, non-governmental, and private sector institutions in countries across the MENA region.Prior to joining academia, Bakir worked as senior political advisor for Qatar's embassy in Ankara-Turkey. He also worked as the head of the Gulf program and a senior researcher in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a senior researcher in the International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO), and as a researcher and editor for AIWA group.Dr. Bakir follows geopolitical and security trends in the Middle East, great power politics, small states behavior, emerging unconventional risks and threats among other topics, with a special focus on Turkey’s foreign and defense policies, Turkey-Arab/Gulf relations, and Gulf security. His research interests include great power politics in the Middle East, small states' behavior, and emerging unconventional risks and threats. Bakir's education, fieldwork, and work experience spans several countries, including Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Qatar.
He is a distinguished TV commentator in the Arab world and analyst on the foreign policies of Turkey, GCC countries, and Iran.He writes regularly for several Arabic, English, and Turkish platforms.
He has recently contributed to English-language outlets including: The National Interest, Al-Jazeera English, Middle East Institute, The Atlantic Council, Sada-Carnegie Endowment MEC, Al-Monitor, InsideArabia, The New Arab, TRT World, Gulf International Forum, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Responsible Statecraft, Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy , among others.Bakir has been quoted by several international news agencies & newspapers such as: Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Financial Times (FT), L'Oreal, AP, AFP, Reuters, Bloomberg among.He has been featured as an expert at a variety of international conferences and workshops including the ones held by RAND, Brookings-Doha, Carnegie Endowment MEC, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington among others.Dr. Bakir has a PhD in political science/international relations from Beirut Arab University

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