Nadim Shehadi

He co-authored a book on The Origins of the Druze People and Religion with Philip Hitti. He also wrote the foreword for Lebanon, Lebanon , Anna Wilson's book on the children living in appalling conditions in Lebanon since the outbreak of war in July 2006.

From 1986 to 2005, Shehadi served as the director of Lebanese Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has also been engaged by the European Union to provide his expertise on the MENA region. He is a member of the executive board of the Centro de Estudios de Oriente Medio of the Fundacion Promocion Social de la Cultura in Madrid. In 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Aspen Institute in Washington DC, and in the summer semester of 2012 he was a visiting scholar at Tufts University. He is also a consultant to several governments and international organizations. He trained as an economist with an interest in the history of economic thought. He is a leading scholar on MENA affairs and his articles have been published by major international news outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian and CNN.

Shehadi received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kent and a Master's degree from the University of Leicester in 1980. His research interests include Arab Spring, Middle East Peace Process, History of Economic Thought, Lebanese History, Culture and Society.

Nadim Shehadi (born 11 February 1956) is the current Executive Director of Lebanese American University's New York Headquarters & Academic Center and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House where he was formerly head of the Middle East program. He was previously director of The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.