Gerd Nonneman (Temse, 16 May 1959) is a professor of international relations and Gulf studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University's campus in Qatar (GU-Q, also often referred to as SFS-Q), where he served as dean from 2011 to 2016.
[2] Born in Flanders (Temse, 1959) and educated at Ghent University, Belgium in Oriental philology (Arabic) and, at postgraduate level, in development studies, Nonneman subsequently worked in the commercial sector in Iraq during the early 1980s.
[3] He was a member of the UK's 2001 National Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) panel on Middle Eastern Studies, and served as executive director of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) between 1998 and 2002.
He was associate fellow of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) until 2012.
He has acted as a consultant to or worked with a range of companies, national and international official institutions including the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, foreign ministries in Europe and the Middle East, the European Commission, and various NGOs – ranging from Amnesty International to the Bertelsmann Foundation.