Mohammed Shareef is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (London). He has worked for the United Nations and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan. Shareef completed his PhD in International Relations at the University of Durham and has an MSc in International Relations from the University of Bristol. He is a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the London Kurdish Institute. His research interests include US foreign policy in the Middle East. He is the author of "The United States, Iraq and the Kurds: Shock, Awe and Aftermath" (Routledge 2014).