Fadi Nicholas Nassar is the Director of the Lebanon Program at the Middle East Institute and the Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution at Lebanese American University (LAU), where he is also an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He is a Research Fellow at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and a Fellow at Lancaster University's Richardson Institute for the SEPAD project. His expertise includes international humanitarian interventions, democratization, U.S. foreign policy, and Middle Eastern politics. His latest book, UN Mediators in Syria (Cambridge University Press), examines the U.N.'s mediation efforts in Syria. His research and articles are published in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Fadi holds a PhD from King’s College London, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, and is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.