Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards is a Senior Advisor and Risk Strategist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qatar and Senior Visiting Fellow of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. Prior, at Queen’s University Belfast, she was a founding Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and Director of Violence, Terrorism and Security.  

Her career has spanned the policy advising and academic world. Her involvement with policy advising includes working as Senior Advisor to the High Representative of the EU for CFSP, Special Envoys to the Middle East Process, EUPOLCOPPS, and the governments of the UK, Norway and the Netherlands. EUPOLCOPPs awarded her both a Commendation and Medal for her services to peace in the Middle East. 

Milton-Edwards – a leading authority on the Middle East - has authored over 100 articles, chapters, reports, and books including her seminal Contemporary Politics in the Middle East, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a People’s War, and Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945.   

Milton-Edwards is Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and NTFA. She has served as a member on the council to BRISMES, BRAIS, HBKU-CHSS and on editorial boards such as British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Protest and International Dialogue.