Armin Seif is Co-Director of the Europe–Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He specializes in governance and state fragility, with research projects at the University of Oxford on hybrid warfare and the impact of emerging technologies on institutional resilience. He brings extensive expertise in European foreign and security policy and its intersections with the socio-political dynamics of the Middle East, particularly Iran. He has previously directed the governance programme at a leading Iraqi think tank and continues to collaborate with major policy platforms in Iraq to address pressing challenges such as security sector reform, Iraq’s evolving regional dynamics, and the impact of conventional and emerging threats, including drone warfare.