Waleed Alhariri is a former Executive Management Member and a the former Director of The Yemen International Forum at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies. He is also a Fellow-in-Residence at Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute.
Alhariri also worked with the International Peace Institute and was a research assistant and human rights monitor with Human Rights Watch following Yemen’s 2011 uprising. He held numerous leadership positions, including a member of the International Constitutional Court Project Ad Hoc Committee, chaired by former Tunisian President Dr. Moncef Marzouki.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hunter College of the City University of New York with a B.A. in Political Science and Human Rights.
Waleed's latest contributions
Trump’s Endgame: Weighing a Houthi FTO Designation
As US President Donald Trump’s administration winds down, reports have emerged that Washington is once again considering the idea of designating the armed Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, as a foreign … Read more
Q&A with Anna Karin Eneström, Swedish Ambassador to the UN
Ambassador Anna Karin Eneström has been the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations. On October 12, she spoke with the Sana’a Center’s Gregory Johnsen and Waleed Alhariri about, … Read more
Five Years of the UN Security Council Toeing the Saudi Line
When the United Nations Security Council took a position on the Yemen war five years ago, it quite naturally supported the interests of some of its member states over the armed Houthi movement which … Read more
