H. A. Hellyer

Dr H. A. Hellyer, a British scholar and analyst, writes on the politics of the modern Arab world, religion and politics, majority-minority relations, Islamism, security issues and the Muslim world - West relations. He is a senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Center for the Middle East, and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. Previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Foreign Policy section, and he was also Democracy Non-Resident Fellow for the academic year 2014 - 2015 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.
Dr Hellyer was previously Senior Practice Consultant at the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. Dr Hellyer was appointed to the British government's Taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism. Dr. Hellyer was appointed as deputy convener of the United Kingdom taskforce on tackling radicalization and extremism after the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005. He also served as the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) first economic and social research council fellow, within its Islam team and counter-terrorism team.
He is the author of a number of books and articles, including "Muslims of Europe: the 'Other' Europeans" published by Edinburgh University Press, and "A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road beyond Revolt" published and distributed by Hurst and Company & Oxford University Press.

Early life and education

Hellyer was raised between the UK and the Arab world, spending a great deal of time in Cairo, Egypt, as well as Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Career

After receiving his PhD from the University of Warwick, Hellyer was made Fellow of the University of Warwick. He was appointed as Deputy Convenor of the UK government's Taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.

He is a Fellow of the Young Foundation, that specializes in social innovation to tackle structural inequality, as well as other institutions. He was a long-term consultant on Demos think tank projects ‘Community Engagement and Counter-terrorism’ and ‘Counter-radicalisation & Muslim communities’.

Hellyer was a Ford Fellow of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, as well as a UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Global Expert. Additionally, as the recipient of a Law degree from the University of Sheffield, he taught as a Visiting Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo.

Hellyer is a Europe Fellow of the Islamic Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Detroit, Michigan, and has contributed a number of blogs to its website.

Hellyer was a Senior Practice Consultant and Senior Analyst at the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. He contributed a post-Mubarak pre-Sisi piece on Egypt to Chatham House studies on international affairs.

Middle East

Hellyer has been described as an expert on the Middle East. For example, in 2009, he gave an invited talk at the UK Embassy in Bahrain.

In 2010, Hellyer took part in a series of debates entitled "The future of Islam in Europe" and hosted by the British Council in Switzerland.

In 2011, Hellyer gave a seminar in Singapore for the International Institute for Strategic Studies on the "Arab Spring".