Rupert is a Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. Before joining the Global Initiative he was a freelance researcher broadly covering political risk in the MENA region. He also contributed to a number of large strategic communications projects investigating public opinion among difficult to access communities in the Middle East. Previously he worked as a security analyst for the BSOC, a private unit embedded with the Iraqi Army’s Basra Operations Command; and as an analyst for GPW, a boutique corporate investigations firm. He holds a BA in Arabic from SOAS, University of London, and an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge.