Dr. Renad Mansour serves as Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, where he has worked as a key researcher and expert on IRIS’ collaboration with the London School of Economics and the Department of International Development’s (DFID) Conflict Research Programme. He is concurrently a Research Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, where his research explores dilemmas posed by state-building in Iraq. Prior to joining Chatham House and IRIS, he was an El-Erian fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Centre, where he examined Iraq, Iran and Kurdish affairs. He is also a research fellow at the Cambridge Security Initiative based at Cambridge University, and from 2013 he held positions as Lecturer of International Studies and Supervisor at the Faculty of Politics, also at Cambridge. Since 2011 he has been a senior research fellow at the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies in Beirut and was advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government Civil Society Ministry between 2008 and 2010. He received his PhD from Cambridge University.

IRIS Publications: 

• Running Out of Options: Why Iraq's Elite Fails to Address Protest Demands. Korad Adenauer Stiftung. October 2020.
• Iraq’s Protesters Become Parliamentarians. Foreign Affairs. November 2021.