Helen Lackner

Helen Lackner is a social anthropologist who has spent the past five decades researching Yemen, working in the country for fifteen years. She is a research associate at the Middle East Institute at SOAS, University of London; a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations; and an associate at the Transnational Institute. Lackner is a regular contributor to Oxford Analytica’s briefs, Arab Digest, Orient XXI and openDemocracy. Her publications include Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition (editor). She lives in Oxford.