Sultan Barakat

Sultan Barakat is a Professor in Public Policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an Honorary Professor at the University of York. He is an Academic Fellow of the University of Geneva and a Senior Fellow of RUSI. In 2016, Professor Barakat founded the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and directed it until 2022. Previously, he served as the Director of Research at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center 2014-2016. At the University of York, he founded and led the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit between 1993 and 2019.

Barakat has pioneered the study of post-war reconstruction and state-building and is the author/editor of many books and articles. With over 30 years of professional experience, advising on issues of conflict resolution, humanitarian response, statebuilding and post-conflict recovery and transition, his work has directly influenced UN, European and national governments’ policy.