News Letter

Justine Salam / Hany Besada

SBE, Vol.20, No.1, 2017

ISSN 1818-1228

Qatar University

Prof. Hany Besada

is a Deputy Executive Director, Diamond Development

Initiative. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Centre on Governance at the

University of Ottawa, a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow with the UN

University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa and a Research Professor,

Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. Until very recently, he was

Regional Advisor, African Mineral Development Centre (AMDC) at the United

Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Prior to that he was Theme

Leader: Governance of Natural Resources at the North-South Institute (NSI)

in Ottawa, Canada and Research Specialist on the United Nations High Level

Panel Secretariat-Post 2015 Development Agenda, United Nations Development

Program (UNDP) in New York.

Justine Salam

is a PhD candidate at the Global Governance Program at Balsillie

School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Ontario. Justine is

interested in many aspects of Middle East politics, especially energy governance

and security, federalism, and Kurdistan. She worked on the British legacy and

the oil question in Iraqi Kurdistan as well as petro-political-partnerships between

China and the Middle East. With Dr. Bessma Momani, Justine is currently working

on petroleum management in federal states and is also a visiting scholar at the

Paris School of International Affairs, Institute of Political Studies in Paris, France.