Tarek Megerisi is a senior policy fellow with the North Africa and Middle East program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is a political analyst and researcher who specializes in Libyan affairs and more generally politics, governance and development in the Arab world. Megerisi started his career in Tripoli, Libya, with the Sadeq Institute and various international NGOs providing diverse research and democratization assistance to Libya’s post-revolutionary authorities between 2012 and 2014.