Lucy van der Kroft

Lucy van der Kroft is a freelance researcher with a focus on the Middle East and Afghanistan. She has worked as a senior Middle East analyst for a leading UK-based risk consultancy, as a programme officer at a policy research organisation in Kabul and as an Afghanistan researcher at Amnesty International. She has a master’s degree in Middle East and Central Asia Security Studies from the University of St Andrews and a bachelor’s degree in Arabic with Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from Durham University.