Advisory Board

The Advisory Board was established in 2015 with the late Mr Nemir Kirdar as founding chairman. Through Mr Kirdar’s leadership, we have seven members whose breadth of experience and commitment to higher education make them ideal partners. Together, the Advisory Board and Middle East Centre Fellows seek to promote excellence in research and teaching, and to preserve the Middle East Centre as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East.

The current Advisory Board membership is:

Dr Serra Kirdar 

(Foundation Fellow), Advisory Board chair

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Ms Danah Al Mulla

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Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan

(Honorary Fellow)

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Professor Joseph Sassoon

(Foundation Fellow)

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Ms Suzy Assaad Wahba

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Mr Hazem Ben-Gacem

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Ms Suzy Kanoo

Photography by Keith Barnes