As an expert on several issues of global importance, Benjamin has provided policy briefs, long-form research, brief analysis, and executive education to policy specialists in the UK government, business clients in the private sector, and charity leaders. His research and analysis has featured in numerous policy, academic, and news reports and articles, and he has appeared as a guest speaker in several podcasts and events. Benjamin has published three peer-reviewed books, including his most recent entitled China’s Strategy in the Gulf: Navigating Conflicts and Rivalries. He is an internationally recognised expert on great power competition, transnational repression, and Middle Eastern security, providing interviews for journalists and researchers and acting as a peer-reviewer for several top-tier academic journals. Benjamin has years of professional and lived experience in the Middle East, speaks Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Arabic fluently, and has research-level capabilities in Persian (Farsi).

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