Sultan Barakat
Fellow
Sultan Barakat is the founder and director of the renowned and leading Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) which was inaugurated in 2016. He is a Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of York where he founded the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) in 1993 and led it until 2016. He previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy and as the Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center.
Professor Barakat specializes in conflict management, post-conflict recovery and transition, and humanitarian response. Most recently, he has co-led Track I and Track II mediation efforts in Afghanistan. He regularly engages in providing guidance to the United Nations, the World Bank, European Union, Department for International Development (DFID), International Labour Organization, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and a variety of government institutions.
Between 2008 and 2014, he was a founding Expert Panel Member of the Global Peace Index. Professor Barakat is part of the Advisory Board of the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute in London, a member of the joint Economic and Social Research Council, and DFID’s Commissioning Panel for research on poverty reduction. He is a regular expert commentator in international media, with regular contributions to Al Jazeera English.