Ahmed Aboudouh

Ahmed Aboudouh is an associate fellow with the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme, based in London. He is a foreign affairs, security and geopolitics specialist. He focuses on China’s rising influence in the MENA region, Gulf geopolitics, the US-China competition and its implications worldwide.

He is a non-resident fellow with the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, and currently heads the China Studies research unit at the Emirates Policy Center (EPC). Previously, Ahmed held the position of consultant editor at The Independent, where he played a key role in building their partnerships with the most influential Middle East publishing powerhouses and contributed to the newspaper’s overseas coverage.

He is a PhD candidate at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, where his thesis focuses on the US-China competition in the Global South. He also holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.