Haizam Amirah Fernández
Senior Analyst, Mediterranean and the Arab World, Real Instituto Elcano
Haizam Amirah Fernández holds a BA from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and an MA in Arab Studies (Political Science, on a Fulbright scholarship) from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (2001).
He completed his studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in international relations, political Islam and transitions to democracy in the Arab world, where he has lived for a number of years.
He has worked for the United Nations in New York and for Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, as well as having lectured at the universities of Georgetown and Barcelona.
Expert in
Spoken languages
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Written languages
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
