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Nonresident Fellow

Salman Shaikh

Salman Shaikh

Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Doha Center, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Salman Shaikh focuses on mediation and conflict resolution issues facing the Middle East and South Asia. He has held posts at the United Nations and the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned in Qatar. He is also currently a special representative in Europe to the Muslim West Fact Initiative.



Expertise

Middle East peace process; Lebanon; Syria; Israel; Gaza and West Bank; United Nations peacemaking, conflict and post-conflict efforts in the Middle East (including Iraq); human development issues in the Muslim world; Qatar and other Gulf states; Muslim populations in Europe

  • Language Fluency:
  • Urdu

Background

Current Positions
Special Representative in Europe to the Muslim West Fact Project; Advisor on Middle East affairs to the Oxford Research Group, UK; Advisor on Middle East mediation efforts to the Humanitarian Dialogue Center, Geneva

Past Positions
Director for Policy and Research to Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, the Consort of the Emir of Qatar; Political Advisor to the UN Personal Representative to Lebanon; Political Advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Advisor on the Middle East; Special Assistant to the UN Special Coordinator to the Middle East Peace Process; Special Assistant on Asia and the Pacific Region to the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs

Education

M.A., International Relations, Canterbury University, UK; B.A., Politics and Economics, Loughborough University, UK

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