MEDirections promotes multidisciplinary field-based research with the aim of producing high-quality academic research that can be of use to policy-makers and practitioners. Policy relevance is a key element for all the publications of the Programme.
Aiming to ensure scientific excellence of publications, MEDirections established a Scientific Committee that is composed of the Programme’s Director, Scientific Advisor and Fellows; prominent figures from the worlds of academia, policy-making and practice, that are:
- Muriel Asseburg – Senior Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- Bruno Dupré – Security and Defense Advisor, EEAS Secretariat General
- Amr El Shobaki – Head of the Arab-European unit, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo
- Heba Raouf Ezzat – Assistant Professor, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul
- Geoffrey Howard – Senior Research Analyst, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Salam Kawakibi – Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Paris
- Michael Köhler, Director Neighbourhood, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
- Wolfram Lacher, Senior Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- Stephane Lacroix, Associate Professor, Sciences-Po Paris
- Nadia Marzouki Chargé de recherche, CNRS, Sciences-Po Paris
- Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Professor of International History and Chair of the International History Department, Graduate Institute Geneva
- James Moran Associate Senior Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies
- Nadim Shehadi, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
- Achim Wennmann, Senior Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute Geneva