Dr Maha Azzam is Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council and a founding member of the Brussels Initiative (May 2014), a set of 10 principles that were agreed upon by leading Egyptian democratic forces abroad. Dr Azzam is a leading policy expert on the Middle East and political Islam. She was Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House (2002-2015) and an advisor on the MENA panel at the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.