Dr. H.A. Hellyer is a senior fellow for National Security and International Policy at American Progress. Specializing in geopolitics, security studies, and political economy, Hellyer has more than 20 years of experience in governmental, corporate advisory, and academic environments in the West, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He also serves as senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. In recognition of his scholarly and public impact, he was elected as fellow (FRHistS) of the Royal Historical Society, fellow (FRSA) of the Royal Society of Arts, and honoree of the Diversity in National Security Network. Designated as deputy convenor of the U.K. government’s task force on tackling radicalization, he was appointed as the first Economic and Social Research Council fellow in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Previously a nonresident fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hellyer served as the first Arab world-based senior practice consultant at the Gallup Organization, where he analyzed public opinion data worldwide. Formerly senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Center for the Middle East, he was also appointed as fellow at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Malaysia. His insights on current events are regularly sought by international media networks such as CNN and the BBC, with op-eds for publications such as The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Guardian, Politico, the Financial Times, New Straits Times, and Daily News Egypt.
Hellyer has also held academic attachments at noted institutions including the University of Warwick (U.K.), where he was the research equivalent of an associate professor; the American University in Cairo as a professor of law; the JFK School of Government at Harvard University as research associate; Cambridge University, as a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; and as visiting professor at RZS-CASIS at the University of Technology in Malaysia. His publications in his specialist subject areas include 10 books, more than 20 book chapters, journal articles, and monographs to various academic presses.
With a degree in law from the University of Sheffield’s School of Law, and an advanced degree in international political economy at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Politics, Hellyer completed a multidisciplinary Ph.D. in the social sciences at the University of Warwick, as a U.K. Economic and Social Research Council scholar.