Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress — with two decades at Carnegie, Brookings, the Atlantic Council, Harvard, and Cambridge behind him — Dr. H. A. Hellyer advises governments, royal courts, and boardrooms on how change in one region reshapes the calculations of another.
About
Dr H.A. Hellyer, FRHistS, FRSA, is Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London — the Institute's longest continuously serving — and Senior Fellow in Geopolitics and Security at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. He has previously held appointments at Carnegie, Brookings, the Atlantic Council, Harvard, and Cambridge. Born in the Gulf and raised across three continents, he has spent more than two decades clarifying the geopolitics and political economy of the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia to governments, boardrooms, and publics worldwide.
Public Intellectual & Analyst
Dr Hellyer works in public and in private: ten books, analysis in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, and The Washington Post, and on-air commentary for CNN and the BBC — the same judgement he brings to ministers, sovereign investors, and corporate boards.
Books
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A Sublime Way
The Sufi Path of the Sages of Makka
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A Revolution Undone
Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt
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Muslims of Europe
The 'Other' Europeans
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The Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence
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The Islamic Tradition and the Human Rights Discourse
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Engagement with the Muslim Community & Counter-Terrorism
The Intercept
“I’ve always trusted his analysis, non-partisan as its always been.”
The New York TImes
“It is hard to imagine a better qualified analyst … honest and probing…’
BBC