Barah Mikail

Barah Mikaïl is the director of the Program of Political Science and International Relations at Saint-Louis University – Madrid Campus. He was formerly a Senior Researcher on the Middle East and North Africa at the Madrid-based Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE, 2011 – 2015). Barah Mikaïl has also worked as a researcher in the Paris-based Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS, 2002 – 2011) and as an associate Professor at the Paris VIII – Saint Denis University (2005 – 2011).

Barah Mikaïl’s research focuses on International Security dynamics, and on the Geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Founder and Director of Stractegia, a Madrid-based consultancy company focused on the MENA region and on Spain’s political and socioeconomic perspectives, 2016 – Present

• Author of various consultancy reports on the MENA region for various private and corporate institutions

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Director of the Program of Political Science and International Relations, Saint Louis University (SLU-Madrid), 2021 – Present

• Associate Professor of Political Science and International Security, SLU-Madrid, 2015 – Present

• Senior Fellow on the MENA region, FRIDE, 2011 – 2015

• Researcher on the MENA region and on the Geopolitics of Water, IRIS (Paris), 2002 – 2011

• Lecturer and Associate Professor, Paris VIII-Saint Denis, 2005 – 2011

• Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International Relations, IE University, Spain, 2017 – Present

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Citizens of the Mediterranean (FACM, Valencia), 2010 – Present

• Member of the peer review committee of Confluences Méditerranée, 2007 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Université Paris VIII – Saint Denis, France, 2010

• MA in Political Science, Université Paris-Dauphine, France, 2003

• MA in International Relations and Communication, ITI-RI/Université Strasbourg II, France, 2002

• BA in International Relations, ITI-RI/Université Strasbourg II, France, 2000

• BA in Islamic and Arabic Civilizations, Université Marc Bloch, France, 1998