Gulf Research Meeting
Talmiz Ahmad
GRM 2024 Workshop: Conflict Resolution Initiatives in the Gulf and Beyond: Strategies of Engagement and Prospects of Success
GRM 2023 Workshop: The Gulf and the Horn of Africa: Trans-Regional Competition and Cooperation
GRM 2022 Workshop: Living Together Separately: social and cultural implications of migration to the GCC countries
GRM 2021 Workshop: Maritime Security and the Gulf States: Changing Strategies, New Political Rationales
GRM 2019 Workshop: A Peace Process for the Gulf: International Initiatives and Gulf Conflict Resolution
GRM 2018 Workshop: The Gulf and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
GRM 2017 Workshop: The GCC and the Indian Ocean: Economic Opportunities and Political Challenges
GRM 2016 Workshop: Collective Security in the Gulf: Prospects for Pan-Gulf Cooperation
Talmiz Ahmad joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1974 and was posted to Kuwait, Iraq and Yemen, and then as Consul General in Jeddah, in 1987-90. After appointments in New York, London and Pretoria, he became the head of the Gulf and Hajj Division in the Ministry of External Affairs in 1998-2000. He did two stints as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, besides being ambassador to Oman and the UAE, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Director General of the Indian Council of World Affairs. After retirement from foreign service in 2011, he was in the corporate sector in Dubai. From 2016, he has been a full-time academic. He holds the Ram Sathe Chair for International Studies, Symbiosis International University, Pune. He has authored four books: Reform in the Arab World: External Influences and Regional Debates (2005); Children of Abraham at War: The Clash of Messianic Militarisms (2010); The Islamist Challenge in West Asia: Doctrinal and Political Competitions after the Arab Spring (2013). His latest book, West Asia at War: Repression, Resistance and Great Power Games, was published in April 2022. He writes and lectures regularly on political Islam, the politics and economics of West Asia, Eurasia and the Indian Ocean, and energy security issues.
