Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou in 2010
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
In office 31 August 2008 – 5 August 2009
President	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Prime Minister	Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Preceded by	Abdallahi Hassen Ben Hmeida
Succeeded by	Naha Mint Mouknass
Personal details
Born	1968 (age 48–49) Atar, Mauritania
Alma mater	City University of New York
Profession	Academic
Known for	Understanding Al Qaeda, Contre-Croisade, Iraq and the Second Gulf War

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou sometimes spelled Mohammad-Mahmoud Mohamedou (born 1968) is a Harvard University scholar who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania from 2008 until 2009. He is currently Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a member of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, and is regarded as a leading international specialist on the new forms of transnational terrorism. He is also a Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris in the Doctoral School. Previously, he was the Deputy Director and Academic Dean of the Geneva Center for Security Policy.

Mohamedou was born in Atar, Mauritania and studied in Spain, France, and the United States where he earned a PhD in Political Science at the City University of New York. In 1996, he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University and in 1997 Research Associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations in New York.

He was Director of Research at the International Council on Human Rights Policy, located in Geneva, from 1998 to 2004, where he conducted research on national human rights institutions, journalism coverage of rights issues, and co-authored a report on the persistence and mutation of racism and economic exclusion.

From 2004 to 2008, Mohamedou was Associate Director of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University where he founded the Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups Project.

He was appointed as Ambassador and Director of Multilateral Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Mauritania in 2008, and subsequently Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He went back to academia in 2009.

He teaches in the International History Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva since 2010, and was Deputy Director and Academic Dean of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy from 2014 to 2017. He is a Lecturer at the Doctoral School at Sciences Po Paris since 2013.