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Books EU-GCC relations, Development, Administration and Aid in the Middle East, Iraq, the Gulf States, & the war | ||
Dean gerd nonneman reflects on a decade of accomplishments for georgetown in qatar
Gerd Nonneman is Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University's campus in Qatar (SFS-Qatar, or SFS-Q), since September 2011. Prior to this appointment, he held the Al-Qasimi Chair in Gulf Studies, and a Chair in International Relations and Middle East Politics, at the University of Exeter. He is a former Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) and of the Centre for Gulf Studies (CGS) at that university. He is also a former Executive Director of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES).
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- Dean gerd nonneman reflects on a decade of accomplishments for georgetown in qatar
- Executive focus gerd nonneman dean georgetown university school of foreign service in qatar
- Early life
- Other roles
- Notable works
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- References
Executive focus gerd nonneman dean georgetown university school of foreign service in qatar
Early life
Born in Flanders (Temse, 1959) and educated at Ghent University, Belgium in Oriental Philology (Arabic) and, at postgraduate level, in Development Studies, Professor Nonneman subsequently worked in the commercial sector in Iraq. After teaching Middle East politics and political economy at Manchester and Exeter Universities, and a spell as Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan, he taught International Relations and Middle East Politics at Lancaster University from 1993 to 2007, at which point he returned to Exeter until his appointment as Dean of Georgetown University's SFS-Qatar in 2011.
He was a member of the UK's 2001 National Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) panel on Middle Eastern Studies, and served as Executive Director of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) between 1998 and 2002. He was Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) until 2012.
Prof. Nonneman is associate editor of the Journal of Arabian Studies (Routledge), edited by the University of Exeter's Centre for Gulf Studies in association with Georgetown University's SFS-Q
Other roles
He has acted as a consultant to or worked with a range of companies, national and international official institutions including the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, foreign ministries in Europe and the Middle East, the European Commission, and various NGOs - ranging from Amnesty International to the Bertelsmann Foundation. He has also been a regular media commentator on Middle Eastern and Gulf affairs, and has frequently acted as expert witness on human rights cases relating to the Middle East.
Notable works
works include: (see academia.edu listing)