Dr Renad Mansour
Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme; Project Director, Iraq Initiative
Biography
Dr Renad Mansour is a senior research fellow and project director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House. He is also a senior research fellow at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, and a research fellow at the Cambridge Security Initiative based at Cambridge University.
Renad was previously a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he taught the international relations of the Middle East and, from 2013, he held positions as lecturer of international studies and supervisor at the Faculty of Politics, also at Cambridge.
He was previously a senior research fellow at the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies in Beirut and was adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government Civil Society Ministry between 2008 and 2010. He received his PhD from Cambridge University.
He is co-author of Once Upon a Time in Iraq, published by BBC Books/Penguin to accompany the critically acclaimed BBC series.
Past experience
| 2016-17 | Lecturer of International Relations of the Middle East, LSE |
| 2016-17 | Academy Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House |
| 2015-16 | El Erian Fellow, Carnegie Middle East Center |
| 2013-present | Senior Research Fellow, Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies |
| 2012-16 | PhD in Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge |
| 2013-16 | Fellow, Cambridge Security Initiative (CSi) |
| 2014-15 | Lecturer, International Studies and Intelligence (ISI), Pembroke College, University of Cambridge |
| 2011-12 | MPhil in International Studies, University of Cambridge |
| 2006-10 | BAH in Political Studies, Queen’s University |
