Middle East Security and Europe's Role After the Gaza Plan
hosted by Professor
Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci
Professor of the Practice at SAIS Europe; Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali
Sanam Vakil
James Anderson Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe; Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
NATHALIE TOCCI
Nathalie Tocci is Professor of the Practice at SAIS Europe
and Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali. She is also an independent non-executive director of the multi-utility company Acea. She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. In that capacity, she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She is Europe's Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). She was Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and, prior to joining Acea, she was independent board member first of Edison and then of Eni. She has held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington, the European University Institute, Florence, and has taught at the College of Europe, Bruges. Her research interests include European integration and European foreign policy, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, transatlantic relations, multilateralism, conflict resolution, energy, climate and defense. Nathalie is a regular columnist on The Guardian and La Stampa, as well as being a regular panelist on BBC's "The Context". She has published in Foreign Affairs, Politico, Financial Times, El Pais, Project Syndicate, and is often interviewed by all major international television and newspaper outlets.
SANAM VAKIL
Sanam Vakil is the James Anderson Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, and Director of Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme. Previously she was the deputy director and a senior research fellow in the programme. Sanam leads the Iran Forum project focusing on future trends in Iran's domestic and foreign policy and follows GCC and Gulf Arab dynamics alongside wider regional security issues in the Middle East. Sanam has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University associated with the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. Before these appointments, from 2003-2005, Sanam was an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at SAIS Washington. She served as a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations also providing research analysis to the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa department. Sanam provides research, commentary and political risk analysis for companies and organizations working in the Middle East. She has been consulted by high ranking government officials in the United States and Europe. Vakil holds a PhD in international relations from SAIS. Professor Vakil is the author of numerous monographs, book reviews, working papers and articles in U.S. and international journals on Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.
