Mohammed Soliman

@Thisissoliman

Non-Resident Senior Fellow - National Security Program

Mohammed Soliman is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the director of the Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program at the Middle East Institute, where he leads a global team of scholars to explore the policy challenges associated with the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and business in the Middle East and emerging markets more broadly. Mr. Soliman advises businesses and executives at McLarty Associates, a global strategy firm, on strategic and policy issues across technology, defense, finance, security, and space. He also serves as a non-resident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a visiting fellow with the National Security Program at Third Way.

Mr. Soliman has previously served as a country analyst for the Peace Tech Lab at the US Institute of Peace, as a Huffington Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and as a Junior Centennial Fellow at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. A native of Cairo, he began his career as an engineer and worked as a consultant, providing strategic advisory services for local and international businesses.

Mr. Soliman currently serves on the board of advisors for Ideas Beyond Border, the Advisory Council of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ISAIL), and the Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain (GC REAIM). He is a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. Mr. Soliman frequently speaks at conferences and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on emerging markets, geopolitics, and global technology policy.

He is a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. Mr. Soliman is a native Arabic speaker with reading and speaking knowledge of German, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, and has lived in Jeddah and Mexico City, among other places. He can be found on X at @Thisissoliman.