Azeem Ibrahim

Prof Azeem Ibrahim OBE is a Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington DC, Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College and a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge after which he was appointed an International Security Fellowing at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a World Fellow at Yale University and a Rothermere Fellow at the University of Oxford.

He has published hundreds of articles in diverse publications including in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph (UK), Foreign Policy, Al Arabiya, Chicago Tribune, LA Times and Newsweek. He is the author of the seminal book: “The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide”, Hurst (UK). His latest book “Radical Virus: Why We Are Losing the War Against Islamic Extremism” was published in November 2017 by Pegasus (New York).

Outside academia, Dr Ibrahim has been a reservist in the IV Battalion Parachute Regiment (UK’s elite airborne infantry reserve) and a multi-award winning entrepreneur. He was ranked as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the European Social Think Tank in 2010 and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2019 he received the International Association of Genocide Scholars Award for his research on the Rohingya genocide; and in 2022, Dr Ibrahim was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, for his services to foreign policy.