Non-Resident Fellow
Lydia Khalil is non-resident fellow in the West Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. A key focus of her work at the Institute is on Iraq. Lydia was recently appointed as a visiting fellow at Macquarie University’s Centre on Policing, Intelligence and Counterterrorism. Prior to this Lydia was a counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department and as a policy advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. She has also worked as a graduate fellow for the White House Office of Homeland Security and a senior policy associate to the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). Lydia holds a B.A. in International Relations from Boston College and a Masters in International Security from Georgetown University. She was born in Cairo, Egypt and is a native Arabic speaker.
