Yerevan Saeed is the Barzani Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Politics, Governance, and Economics at American University’s School of International Service, where he also serves as Director of the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace. His research focus on political economy, energy politics, conflict resolution, and Kurdish studies, with emphasis on Iraq, Turkey, Iran, the Gulf states, and the broader Middle East. Saeed has held academic and research positions including Lecturer at the University of Kurdistan Hewler, Visiting Scholar at Arab Gulf States Institutes in Washington, and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Research Institute (MERI). A regular contributor to scholarly and policy discourse, Saeed’s work appears in outlets such as AGSIW, the Wilson Center, The New Lines Institute, The Diplomatic Courier, The Hill, Fikra Forum (The Washington Institute), the Middle East Institute, Al Jazeera, Majalla Magazine, and Rudaw.