is a Saudi political scientist with more than twenty-three years of experience in political, economic and international relations advisory and research. He is the Director General of the Strategic Studies and National Security Programs at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences. He is also a former Fulbright fellow at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He has a doctorate from the University of Exeter. He is also a former senior research fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and a former senior advisor at the Gulf Research Centre (GRC), Cambridge, and a program director of the International Studies program, as well as a geopolitical expert and a strategy adviser to senior executives operating globally.

Alghannam is a keynote speaker at international conferences and provides analysis for major global think tanks & media conglomerates on the topics of policy, international relations, national security, and strategy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad. Dr. Alghannam was recently nominated as a regional specialist to provide expert testimony for several first-tier stakeholders (central executives) and second-tier (legislative, judicial, intelligence, international relations committees) around the world. He authored and contributed to various impactful book chapters/research studies/projects on the GCC, the Arab world, and nuclear Weapons.