Renad Mansour is a senior research fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and the project director of its Iraq Initiative. He is also a senior research fellow at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, and a research fellow at the Cambridge Security Initiative based at the University of Cambridge. Renad was previously a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught the international relations of the Middle East. He held positions as lecturer of international studies and supervisor at the Faculty of Politics, also at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-author of Once Upon a Time in Iraq, published by BBC Books/Penguin (2020) to accompany the critically acclaimed BBC series.