Lina Khatib

Dr. Lina Khatib is a visiting scholar with the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. Her previous roles include serving as director of the SOAS Middle East Institute and Professor of Practice at the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London; director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House; and director of the Carnegie Middle East Center at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She also co-founded and previously led the Program on Arab Reform and Development at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and was a senior associate at the Arab Reform Initiative. She has published several books and is a frequent writer and commentator on current affairs in the Middle East.