Biography
Ahmed Aboudouh is an associate fellow with the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme, based in London, and Director, East Asia at Emirates Policy Center (EPC). He also teaches International Relations in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. His work focuses on China’s rising influence in the MENA region, Gulf geopolitics, the US-China competition and its implications worldwide.
Previously, Ahmed served as a consultant editor at The Independent, where he played a key role in building the paper’s partnerships with leading Middle East publishers and contributed to its overseas coverage.
He is a PhD candidate in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College, where his thesis focuses on middle powers amid US-China competition. He also holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from King’s College London’s Department of War Studies.
Past experience
| 2022–2024 | Nonresident Fellow, Atlantic Council |
| 2020–present | Head of China Studies, Emirates Policy Center |
| 2019–21 | MA International Relations, War Studies, King’s College London |
| 2018–22 | Consultant Editor, The Independent |
| 2015–18 | Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Al Arab |
