Hesham Alghannam is a Saudi political scientist and former Fulbright Fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he received a master’s degree in international policy studies. Alghannam holds a PhD from the University of Exeter. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and a senior advisor and program director of the International Studies program at the Gulf Research Centre, Cambridge. Alghannam is a geopolitical expert and strategy advisor to senior executives operating globally. Alghannam is a regular speaker at international conferences and provides analysis for leading international institutes, think tanks, and media outlets on policy and strategy in Saudi Arabia and abroad.