Charles R. Lister

Charles Lister is a resident fellow at the Middle East Institute, where he focuses on terrorism, insurgency and sub-state security threats across the Middle East. In recent years, his work has focused on assessing the status of the conflict in Syria, especially the makeup of the anti-government insurgency and its various jihadist components. Lister is also a Senior Consultant to The Shaikh Group’s Track II Syria Initiative, within which he has helped manage a two-year process of face-to-face engagement with the leaderships of over 100 Syrian armed opposition groups. Lister was formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar and head of MENA at the London-based IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.