Traffic policeman (de facto authorities) in Sanaa, Yemen. Photo: Peter Salisbury
About the Authors
Dr Renad Mansour is a research fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. His research explores the situation of Iraq in transition and the dilemmas posed by state-building. He is also a research fellow at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani. Renad was previously a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught on the international relations of the Middle East. He has also held teaching positions at the faculty of politics at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Chatham House, Renad held research positions at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies in Beirut, and the Cambridge Security Initiative in Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Peter Salisbury is a senior consulting fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, and a consulting senior analyst for Yemen at International Crisis Group. Peter is the former energy editor of the Middle East Economic Digest, and has worked as a journalist and analyst focused on political economy issues in the MENA region since 2008. He has written widely for The Economist, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy and Vice News, among other publications, and worked as a consultant to the UK government’s Department for International Development, the UN and the World Bank. Since 2011, Peter has worked on a series of public and private research projects on the political economy of Yemen for Chatham House. He holds an MSc in international politics from SOAS University of London, and an MA in English and Scottish literature from the University of Edinburgh.