Profile: Dr Noel Brehony, CMG, Chair

Noel Brehony joined the British Foreign Office after completing a PhD on Libya and has had postings to Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan, and Egypt. He joined Rolls-Royce plc as director of Middle East Affairs in 1992 and has been a member of the board of Rolls-Royce companies in Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

Brehony has been chair of the Middle East Association and participated in several UK government advisory groups on trade policy on the Middle East. He has been a member of the UK–Saudi Joint Offset Committee, the UK–Saudi Business Council, and the Dubai–UK Economic Committee. He is president of the British Society of Middle East Studies, chair of the Council for British Research in the Levant, and an advisory board member at the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the council of the British Egyptian Society.