Yossi Mekelberg is a professor of international relations and currently teaches at Webster University and the University of Roehampton. Yossi previously taught at Regent’s University, London where he was head of the international relations and social sciences programme and the faculty lead on outreach projects, also teaching courses at King’s College, London and at SOAS. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London.
He has also taught in the US, Mexico, Netherlands, Uzbekistan and Israel. He has been with the MENA Programme at Chatham House since 2002, where he was previously a senior consulting research fellow and is currently an associate fellow. His fields of expertise include negotiation and mediation, the politics and security of the Middle East, revolutions as an international phenomenon and US foreign policy. Yossi has participated in numerous track 1.5 and track 2 negotiations on Middle Eastern affairs, and participated in, designed and led simulations with Chatham House, the Royal Dutch Defence College, University College Utrecht, University of the Saarland, Trends Research and Advisory, in the UAE, and international MUN conferences. Yossi has advised government ministries and parliaments in different countries including the UK, US, Sweden, China and Japan, as well as UN agencies and NGOs. He was on the advisory board of the ProWSA project at Folke Bernadotte Academy in the Swedish Foreign Ministry and a member of the Human Rights Watch London Committee. Yossi is currently a member of the Global Advisory Board of Seeds of Peace and the Scientific Advisory Board of Trends Advisory and Research. He was a weekly columnist for the Al-Arabiya network before moving to write twice a week for Arab News. Yossi is regular contributor to international media on a variety of international affairs issues.