Mark Allworthy

Mark Allworthy "read Arabic and Persian at Pembroke College, Oxford. After graduating in 2000 he worked as a software developer in the financial industry. In 2002 he joined MEC, a political risk consultancy, as a Research Analyst and Project Coordinator. He then took a position at Reuters as a Middle East Research Editor. In 2004 Mark spent six months with the British Military in Iraq, working as an interpreter and translator, returning to the UK to join the IISS." [1]

• Advisory Board, Dialogue International