Prof. Gareth Stansfield

Prof. Gareth Stansfield is Professor of Middle East Politics and the Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Prof. Stansfield has over 25 years’ experience of field-based research in countries of the Middle East. He has previously held roles at Chatham House, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC; and the Royal United Services Institute. He was part of British horizon-scanning initiatives on Iraq and Libya with the Ministry of Defence. Prof. Stansfield holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in Middle East Politics, both from Durham University.