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MEDirections promotes multidisciplinary field-based research with the aim of producing high-quality academic research that can be of use to policy-makers and practitioners. Policy relevance is a key element for all the publications of the Programme.
Aiming to ensure scientific excellence of publications, MEDirections established a Scientific Committee that is composed of the Programme's Director, Scientific Advisor and Fellows; prominent figures from the worlds of academia, policy-making and practice, that are:
Muriel Asseburg – Senior Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Bruno Dupré – Security and Defense Advisor, EEAS Secretariat General
Amr El Shobaki – Head of the Arab-European unit, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo
Heba Raouf Ezzat – Assistant Professor, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul
Geoffrey Howard – Senior Research Analyst, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Salam Kawakibi – Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Paris
Michael Köhler, Director Neighbourhood, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
Wolfram Lacher, Senior Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Stephane Lacroix, Associate Professor, Sciences-Po Paris
Nadia Marzouki Chargé de recherche, CNRS, Sciences-Po Paris
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Professor of International History and Chair of the International History Department, Graduate Institute Geneva
James Moran Associate Senior Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies
Nadim Shehadi, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Achim Wennmann, Senior Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute Geneva