Tarek Megerisi is a Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR, where he specialises in state-building, development and political issues of the Maghreb region, European policy towards their southern neighbourhood, and geopolitics of the Mediterranean.
Megerisi started his career in Tripoli, Libya, with the Sadeq Institute and various INGOs providing diverse research and democratisation assistance to Libya’s post-revolutionary authorities between 2012-2014.
Megerisi returned to London in 2014 and has since been working freelance as an analyst and researcher, advising on Libya policy to a range of international missions to Libya, commentating on Libyan developments for publications like Foreign Policy, and co-authoring policy briefs or assisting with the Libya programming of a variety of think-tanks. He has also authored commissioned papers for organisations such as WPF and the Legatum Institute and contributed to broader publications for journals like ISPI.