Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies
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Media Inquiries

About Us Media Inquiries

For press inquiries, interview requests, or expert commentary, reach out through our media officers below or browse our experts and contact them directly through their profiles. We connect journalists with our researchers and analysts, and can share multimedia assets, maps, and data to support your coverage of Yemen and the region.

Media officers

Murad Al-Arefi

Communications Officer

Shams Shamsan

Program Manager

Experts

Abdulghani Al-Iryani

Senior Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Political Transition & Governance
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
Adel Dashela

Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Transitional Justice
  • Tribes & Customary Authority
Ahmed El-Deeb

Researcher and Translator

Area of expertise
  • Israel & Regional Security
Bilqees Al-Lahbi

Gender and Civil Society Advisor

Area of expertise
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Gender, Peace & Security
  • Youth & Political Participation
  • Tribes & Customary Authority
Casey Coombs

Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • The Houthi Movement
Elisabeth Kendall

Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Maritime Security & the Red Sea
  • Gender, Peace & Security
  • The Houthi Movement
  • AQAP & Violent Extremism
  • Education
  • Information Warfare & Propaganda
Ghaidaa Alrashidy

Visual Data Specialist and Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Transitional Justice
  • Data, Mapping & Spatial Analysis
Helen Lackner

Non-resident Fellow

Area of expertise
  • Economic Policy & Recovery
  • War Economy & Illicit Networks
  • Climate, Environment & Renewable Energy
  • Tribes & Customary Authority
  • Political History of Yemen
Hussam Radman

Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Iran, the Gulf & Regional Powers
  • Maritime Security & the Red Sea
  • Ideology & Armed Movements
  • AQAP & Violent Extremism
Khaled Monassar

Head of Finance & Compliance

Area of expertise
  • Economic Policy & Recovery
  • War Economy & Illicit Networks
  • Financial Sector & Banking
Lara Uhlenhaut

Editor and Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Gender, Peace & Security
  • Knowledge Production & Research Methodology
Maali Jamil

Program Manager and Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Transitional Justice
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Education
Maged Al-Madhaji

Chairperson and Co-Founder

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Maritime Security & the Red Sea
  • Peace Processes & Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • The Houthi Movement
Maryam Alkubati

Non-resident Fellow

Area of expertise
  • Political Transition & Governance
  • Peace Processes & Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Gender, Peace & Security
Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen

Senior Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Transitional Justice
  • Ideology & Armed Movements
  • The Houthi Movement
  • Political History of Yemen
  • Information Warfare & Propaganda
Musaed Aklan

Senior Researcher
(Environment and Water)

Area of expertise
  • Political Transition & Governance
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Climate, Environment & Renewable Energy
  • Data, Mapping & Spatial Analysis
  • Knowledge Production & Research Methodology
Ned Whalley

Researcher and Editor

Area of expertise
  • Political Transition & Governance
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Peace Processes & Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • War Economy & Illicit Networks
Osamah Al-Rawhani

Co-Executive Director for
Policy and Partnerships

Area of expertise
  • Political Transition & Governance
  • Peace Processes & Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Economic Policy & Recovery
Rim Mugahed

Program Manager

Area of expertise
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Peace Processes & Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Gender, Peace & Security
Salah Ali Salah

Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Maritime Security & the Red Sea
  • The Houthi Movement
Sarah Phillips

Non-Resident Research Fellow and Advisor for Research Training and Academic Development

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • War Economy & Illicit Networks
  • Humanitarian-Development Nexus
  • AQAP & Violent Extremism
  • Knowledge Production & Research Methodology
  • Political History of Yemen
Tawfeek Al-Ganad

Arabic editor and Researcher

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Education
  • Political History of Yemen
Thomas Juneau

Non-resident Fellow

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Iran, the Gulf & Regional Powers
  • Maritime Security & the Red Sea
Wadhah Al-Awlaqi

Chief Economist

Area of expertise
  • Economic Policy & Recovery
  • War Economy & Illicit Networks
  • Knowledge Production & Research Methodology
  • Financial Sector & Banking
Yasmeen Al-Eryani

Co-Executive Director for
Knowledge Production

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Geopolitics & Regional Dynamics
  • Peace Processes & Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Knowledge Production & Research Methodology
Yazeed Al-Jeddawy

Research manager

Area of expertise
  • Conflict Analysis & Security
  • Civil Society & Civic Engagement
  • Youth & Political Participation
  • Knowledge Production & Research Methodology