Navigating the Middle East and South Asia
INSIGHTS — ADVISORY — COMMENTARY
ABOUT
Charlie Gammell is one of the UK’s foremost experts on the Middle East and Afghanistan.
With two decades of experience working in the region, Charlie’s professional experiences span diplomatic, NGO, commercial and academic roles. His advisory services, grounded in a deep linguistic, historical and cultural understanding of what makes these regions move, are unique in their depth of understanding, and offer clients access to a network of contacts spanning government and commerce, academia and the Third Sector.
Charlie is the author of the critically acclaimed Pearl of Khorasan, A History of Herat and contributes regularly to a range of global publications (Economist, Spectator, TLS), and his views are often sought on Iran and the Middle East’s fast moving events by outlets such as Sky News, Times Radio and the BBC. He has lectured at universities around the world, from Yale to SOAS, and continues to contribute to the academic debate on the history of Iran through his scholarly articles
SERVICES
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Helping companies unlock opportunities in the region, either through facilitating connections or through the provision of hard-to-reach information. Advising governments and NGOs on local and national political issues, and providing assistance on ad hoc training and messaging campaigns.
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After a career in the UK Foreign Office, Charlie offers bespoke training for C-Suite executives in elicitation, rapport building and communication (written and verbal) techniques that assist his clients in getting more from their written and spoken interactions in the workplace.
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Charlie is an engaging, informed and witty public speaker, able to cut through the complexities of the Middle East and present the human face of a region so often defined through a lens of conflict or big power geopolitics. Charlie has spoken to corporates, universities and governments about his experiences, and is often complimented on his accessible style, and his fascinating talks which draw on everything from Sufi poetry, to local customs and to the hard realities of political power, grounding his talks in a thorough understanding of history. He is represented by PepTalk.
