​The General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS). He is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. A prominent Arab writer and scholar, Bishara has published numerous books and academic papers in political thought, social theory, and philosophy, in addition to several literary works, including: Civil Society: A Critical Study (1996); On the Arab Question: An Introduction to an Arab Democratic Statement (2007); Religion and Secularism in Historical Context (3 volumes 2011-2013); On Revolution and Susceptibility to Revolution (2012); The Army and Political Power in the Arab Context: Theoretical Problems (2017); Essay on Freedom (2016); Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects (2017); What is Salafism? (2018); The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh): A General Framework and Critical Contribution to Understanding the Phenomenon (2018); What is Populism? (2019) and Democratic Transition and its Problems: Theoretical Lessons from Arab Experiences (2020). Some of these works have become key references within their respective field.

As part of a wider project chronicling, documenting, and analyzing the Arab revolutions of 2011, Bishara has also published three key volumes: The Glorious Tunisian Revolution (2011); Syria's Via Dolorosa to Freedom: An Attempt at Contemporary History (2013) and The Great Egyptian Revolution (in two volumes) (2014). Each book deals with the revolution’s background, path, and different stages. In their narration and detail of the revolutions’ daily events, these volumes constitute a key reference in what is known as contemporary history along with an analytical component that interlinks the social, economic and political contexts of each revolution.

His field of economic research is focused on evolutionary economics with an emphasis on the economics of knowledge. He is also involved in philosophical issues related to the Theories of Justice and Democracy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg, 2003.

​Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Managing Editor of Siyasat Arabia. Hussein holds a PhD from the University of Florence, and is the author of a number of works on international affairs.

​Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on political theory and the philosophy of history.

Policy Analysis Unit Coordinator at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. He holds a PhD in International Relations. He was the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Kalamoon University in Damascus, Syria, until November 2012. Dr. Kabalan worked on International Political Theory at the University of Manchester, UK and at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Damascus University. 

​Chair of Democratic Transition Project at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Bassem Serhan is a Researcher in Sociology. He received a master's degree in sociology from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1967, and worked as a social researcher at the University of Western or Ontario, Canada in 1970. He has published several books, including: The American Community in Lebanon (1969), Palestinian Children (1970) "The Encyclopedia of Palestine in the Twentieth Century" (2000); "Transformations of the Palestinian Family in the Diaspora, A Comparative Sociological Study" (2005).

He previously served as Associate Professor of Political Science at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. El-Affendi headed the Islam and Democracy Program, which he founded at that center, from 1998. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Reading in Britain.

She was a faculty member at the University of Sharjah (UAE) where she held the position of Director of the Executive MBA. She received the distinguished Faculty Member Award for Scientific Research and Teaching (2011). She also has taught as Local Tutor postgraduate students at the University of Leicester (UK) and supervised DBA students as a Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Trent University (UK). She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Montreal (Her thesis was nominated for the best HEC doctoral thesis prize).

​ Assistant Professor at the School of Public Administration and Development Economics, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He previously was Senior Policy Analyst at the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) and senior administrator of the Qatar Humanitarian Innovation Lab initiative, at Qatar University. Prior to that, Laurent worked as R&D Director at Oxford Consilium.