Bessma Momani is professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC. She is a governor on the board of the International Development Research Centre. Dr. Momani has authored and coedited numerous books, scholarly journal articles, and book chapters, as well as editorials for the New York Times, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, and others.