Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Dr Maria Shagina (Senior Research Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies), and Professor Philippa Webb (Professor of Public International Law at Kings College London)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Alistair Burt (former Minister of State for the Middle East at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Dr. Gershon Baskin (Co-Chairman at Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)), and Samer Sinijlawi (Founding Chairman at Jerusalem Development Fund)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Gershom Gorenberg (journalist and historian, author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements 1967-1977), Dr Rashid Khalidi (Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University), and Colonel (Retired) Miri Eisin (Managing Director at International Institute for Counter-Terrorism)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Tim Eaton (Senior Research Fellow in the MENA programme at Chatham House), Peter Millett (Former UK Ambassador to Libya), and Denisse Rudich (Director of Rudich Advisory and adviser at The Sentry)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Farea Al-Muslimi (Research Fellow in the MENA programme at Chatham House), Helen Lackner (Former Visiting Fellow at European Council for Foreign Relations and former Research Associate at SOAS), and Dr Elisabeth Kendall (Mistress at Girton College, University of Cambridge and former Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, University of Oxford)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses The Rt Hon Jack Straw (Former Foreign Secretary at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy

Witnesses Edmund Fitton-Brown (Former Coordinator at UN Sanctions Monitoring Group), SOAS Middle East Institute, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and KCL, and Jerome Drevon (Jihad and Modern Conflict Senior Analyst at International Crisis Group)

Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Professor of International Relations at School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham), Professor Simon Mabon (Professor of International Politics at Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department, University of Lancaster), and Professor Christopher Phillips (Professor in International Relations at School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses John Casson (Former Foreign Affairs Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and ambassador to Egypt at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office), and Jay Mens (Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses John Bolton (Former National Security Advisor (United States) and Former US Ambassador at United Nations)

Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy

Witnesses Nuradin Dirie (Senior Advisor at European Institute of Peace), Roger Middleton (Managing Director at Sabi Insight), and Dr Nisar Majid (Research Director (Somalia), Peace & Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) at London School of Economics)

Work Artificial Intelligence and diplomacy (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Professor Michael Ambühl (Former Swiss State Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Mathematician), Professor Corneliu Bjola (Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies at Department of International Development, University of Oxford), Pia Hüsch (Research Analyst for Cyber, Technology and National Security at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), and Professor Nick Boström (Professor and Director at Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)

Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Minister of State (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations) at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Andrew McCoubrey (Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Andrew Kidd (Former Head of UKAid Programme at British Embassy Kabul, Director at Kent Refugee Action Network, and Representative at UK-Afghanistan Diplomatic and Development Alliance), Fawzia Koofi (Former Deputy Speaker at Afghan Parliament), and Nicola Kelly (Freelance journalist)

Work Recent coups in West Africa and the Sahel region (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Dr Nicholas Westcott CMG (Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London), Aneliese Bernard (Founder and Director at Strategic Stabilization Advisors), and Aanu Adeoye (West Africa Correspondent at Financial Times)

Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy

Witnesses Richard Barrett CMG OBE (Former Director of Counterterrorism at MI6, and Former Head of the UN al-Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team at United Nations Security Council), Harmonie Toros (Professor of International Relations at University of Reading), and Paul Jordan (Head of Responding to Violent Extremism at European Institute of Peace)

Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy

Witnesses Peter Neumann (Professor of Security Studies at Department of War Studies, Kings College London, and Founder at International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation), and Antonio Giustozzi (Senior Research Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and Visiting Professor at King's College London)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement in Central Asia

Witnesses Charles Garrett (Former UK Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan), and Erlan Dosymbekov (Managing Partner at Ernst and Young (EY) in Kazakhstan and Central Asia)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement in Central Asia

Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office