Dr H.A. Hellyer

  1. Dr H.A. Hellyer
    Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick

    H.A. Hellyer is Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick (UK) and Director of the West – Muslim world relations research consultancy, the Visionary Consultants Group (UK, Egypt & Malaysia). A United Nations ‘Global Expert’ on minority-majority relations, political philosophy, and the interplay between religion and modernity, Dr. Hellyer was Ford Fellow of the Project on US – Islamic World Relations at the Brookings Institution.

    As Senior Research Fellow at Warwick University, he was ESRC Placement Fellow at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from October 2007 to April 2008, offering independent advice on Muslim European communities. In the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings, Dr Hellyer was nominated as Deputy Convenor of the UK Government’s Home Office working group on Muslim communities, to provide independent counsel and critique.

    A prolific commentator in Western media and media in the Muslim world, he is currently completing work on his next book entitled “Muslims on the Margins: Muslim Minorities in Southeast Asia, Africa and the West”.

    Please visit www.hahellyer.com for further information about the book and the author.