Dr Renad Mansour
Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Biography
Dr Renad Mansour is the Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Programme and 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.
Dr Mansour is a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he teaches the international relations of the Middle East. Since 2013, he has held positions as lecturer of international studies and supervisor at the Faculty of Politics at Cambridge.
His research focuses on political economy, state-society relations, and security in the Middle East. He was principal investigator for the Chatham House XCEPT project, which explored the drivers of transnational conflict across the Middle East and Africa.
He is co-author of Once Upon a Time in Iraq, published by BBC Books/Penguin to accompany the award-winning BBC series.
Past experience
| 2016–17; 2025–present | Guest 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 |
