Experts on countries of origin by surname

Dr. Shaul Gabbay completed a BA at Bar Ilan University and an MA at Tel-Aviv University. In 1991 he received a Presidential Fellowship from the U.S. to continue his studies. In 1995 he completed the PhD program at Columbia University in New York and received an invitation from the University of Chicago for a Post Doctoral program. In 1998 Dr. Gabbay returned to Israel to join the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Professor Gabbay joined the University of Denver as the Director of the Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in 2001- 2010.  He continued his research at DU as a Senior Scholar until 2015 when he was appointed Director of the Global Research Institute.

His areas of expertise include Middle East cultures and societal norms,   Middle East conflicts, and human rights issues existing in Muslim societies.  He is regularly cited and acts as a commentator in national and international media such as the Associated Press, CBS, NBC, FOX and MSNBC.

The expert is a seasoned International Analyst and Political Scientist, specializing in humanitarian disarmament, arms control, and transnational organized crime, with extensive experience in NGOs in Argentina and Colombia. His research and academic endeavors are dedicated to addressing pressing issues in defense, security, and humanitarian efforts.

Academic with expertise on many countries in the Middle East

The expert is lecturer in Kurdish and Gender Studies at the University of Exeter and has extensive experience in providing country expert reports, nationality assessment, and language analysis.

Independent researcher. Country expert reports, nationality assessment, language analysis, Gender-based violence, Ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East, and Document authentication.

The Expert is a practicing medical anthropologist and public health professional, with a focus on mental health and health equity research. She has published research on mental health, stigma, syndemics, chronic illness, obesity, food insecurity, environmental health, and community-based participatory research.

David Glovsky is an Assistant Professor of African History at Boston University (BU). He is a historian of 19th and 20th century West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea. His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration, borderlands, spatial history, Islam, citizenship, gender, and histories of popular culture/sport.

Prof. Glovsky has extensive research experience in greater Senegambia, focused on cross-border mobility and belonging among primarily rural communities. His work is embedded in understanding how people in border regions conceive of their spaces, rather than state views from the outside. He holds a B.A. in History and Human Geography from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in African History from Michigan State University. Prior his time at BU, he taught in the Department of Africana Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

The Expert is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author or co-author of four ethnographies and numerous articles based on his research in Bolivia and the United States. His areas of interest include the anthropology of politics and law, security, violence, immigration, and urban life. The Expert retired from academia in 2018 to pursue a career as a novelist, but he remains involved in the study of Latin American political and social life.

Journalist and Broadcaster, with direct experience of 'post-war' Iraq

The Expert/Consultant is a specialist for Nepal and Bhutan – the countries in the Himalayan belt and has provided expert reports to the UK and U.S. courts, including NGOs and businesses around the world. The Expert has appeared in court to provide testimony. The expert was born and raised in Nepal - and provides linguistic expertise in the Nepali language too. He was recently involved in a charity project in Nepal in 2021 and 2022, during this period, he spent a substantial amount of time in Nepal. He regularly travels to Nepal for study and social enterprise projects – and closely collaborates with various agencies in Nepal and Bhutan.

The Expert is currently continuing his doctoral research in politics at Birkbeck College, the University of London. He was previously enrolled on a PhD programme at the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) where he began his research on the dynamics of the relationship of Nepal’s internal political actors with India and China. The Expert is a Member of the Britain Nepal Academic Council (BNAC), Political Studies Association (PSA) and Chatham House.