H. A. Hellyer
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Dr H. A. Hellyer is
Senior Analyst at the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center and the Gallup Center for Muslim
Studies at Gallup Inc., where he focuses on analysis and dissemination of
Gallup’s renowned World Poll. He is also Fellow at the Centre for Research in
Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick (UK) & founder of the policy
research consortium, the VC Group (with consultants in Europe, North America,
the Middle East and Southeast Asia, based out of Cairo). Formerly Ford Fellow
of Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution (USA), Dr Hellyer
is a United Nations ‘Global Expert’ and commentator on Muslim – Western
relations, the politics of the Arab region, Islamism & security, and
minority/majority relations worldwide.
An academic, policy specialist and international speaker, Dr Hellyer is
regularly invited to give advice and evidence to the Department of Communities
and Local Government, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Home Office,
the House of Commons (UK), the Department of Homeland Security, and the State
Department (USA). He has been asked to serve as Deputy Convenor of the UK
Government’s taskforce after the 7th of July bombings, and Warwick University
Senior Research Fellow at the UK Foreign Office to advise on Muslim
communities. A contributor to Oxford Analytica, he has also served as a
consultant to different British Council initiatives in Europe, North America
and the Middle East. He was also appointed as Senior Outreach Manager and
Senior Academic Advisor at Soliya, a UN Alliance of Civilisations
implementation organisation that seeks to improve West – Muslim world relations
through new media and university education.
Educated at international schools in the UK and across the Middle East, Dr
Hellyer received degrees in law, politics and sociology for the universities of
Sheffield and Warwick (UK), and has carried out fieldwork across the Arab
world, southeast Asia, Europe and North America. He has been a visiting
professor at the American University in Cairo, and at the Universiti Teknologi
in Malaysia, as well as being a Member of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
of the University of Oxford. His previous and current policy institute
affiliations include memberships and fellowships at the International Institute
of Strategic Studies (London, Washington, Singapore), and the Institute for
Social Policy and Understanding (USA). A prolific author, he writes books,
academic journal articles and columns in Foreign Policy, the Washington Post
(USA), the Huffington Post (USA), the National (UAE), the Guardian (UK),
al-Masry al-Youm (Egypt) and the Straits Times (Singapore), among other
publications around the world. He is currently writing two books on European
and American security policy, and the Arab Spring.