Dr. Hesham Alghannam is a Saudi political scientist and a Fulbright scholar. He is also a senior research fellow at the Gulf Research Centre (GRC), Cambridge, as well as a geopolitical expert and strategy adviser to senior executives operating globally. Alghannam is a regular speaker at international conferences and provides analysis for leading international media outlets on the topics of policy and strategy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad. He has also worked with the major research centers of the Middle East on issues such as conducting fieldwork in conflict zones, ballistic missiles, political Islam, war strategies and crisis management.