Lina Khatib

Lina Khatib is an associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and visiting scholar with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. 

She is a leading expert on Middle East geopolitics, security, and international affairs. She is a prolific writer published in TIME, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs and a frequent media commentator on current affairs on the BBC and CNN. Her latest policy paper is titled The Degradation of Iran’s Proxy Model, published by the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School (April 2026).