Corresponding Senior Fellow for Regional Politics, IISS-Middle East
Main Responsibilities: Conducts research on regional and global security as well as geoeconomic issues. She also defines and oversees the translation of key IISS publications into Arabic.
Background: Alanoud was the Senior Political Analyst at the Kuwait National Security Bureau and prior to this worked as a gender politics consultant for UNIFEM, Freedom House, and the UNDP on academic and social outreach projects in Kuwait and the GCC. She holds a BA from King’s College, London and a Master’s and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her teaching posts include Kuwait University, Gulf University of Science and Technology, the Arab Open University, visiting lecturer at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Fulbright Scholar on Women and Islam at Whittier College, USA. She has published several books and articles on gender and kinship policies in the GCC.
Joined IISS: November 2010
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