Tarek Megerisi

Senior Policy Fellow

ECFR

Tarek Megerisi is a senior policy fellow with the North Africa and Middle East programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is a political analyst and researcher who specialises in Libyan affairs and more generally politics, governance and development in the Arab world. Megerisi started his career in Tripoli, Libya with the Sadeq Institute and various INGOs providing diverse research and democratisation assistance to Libya’s post-revolutionary authorities between 2012-2014. Megerisi returned to London in 2014 and has since been working freelance as an analyst and researcher, advising on Libya policy to a range of international missions to Libya, commentating on Libyan developments for publications like Foreign Policy, and co-authoring policy briefs or assisting with the Libya programming of a variety of think-tanks. He has also authored commissioned papers for organisations such as WPF and the Legatum Institute and contributed to wider publications for journals like ISPI. In 2017 he was part of the UN OHCHR team to update the Pinheiro Principles on Home, Land & Property Rights for the Middle East.

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Session

02
Dec

14:30 - 15:30 CET

MED Panels

Sahel – North Africa – Europe: the Vertical Pathway of Instability

with: Ali Aslan, Stefania Craxi, Djime Adoum, Abdoul Salam Bello, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Natalina Cea, Emanuela Del Re, Hélène Le Gal, Tarek Megerisi, Thomas Volk