Ranj Alaaldin is a foreign policy analyst specialised in international security, good governance, track II diplomacy, and public sector reforms. He is a fellow at the MECGA, Director of the Carnegie Corporation’s Crisis Response Council, and a senior consultant at the World Bank. 

Alaaldin obtained his PhD in International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a fellow at Columbia University, has published widely on conflict and governance in the Middle East and North Africa, advises the World Bank on youth empowerment and the political economy of violence, and was previously an associate fellow at King’s College London and Oxford Research Group. He has led multiple research teams in the MENA region, including Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey. He has presented his research work at the World Bank, the House of Commons, and the UK Foreign Affairs Committee. Alaaldin has published in academic journals and edited volumes and writes for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.