Biographies of Helen Lackner

Helen Lackner is a French writer, resident in the UK, academic and researcher mostly known for her work on the Middle East and Yemen in particular. She is the author among other books of Yemen in Crisis, which won the Grand Prix of Literary Associations 2018, Research Category., Biography Helen Lackner who is often introduced as an independent investigator, is currently a Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute SOAS. She has been researching on Yemen since the 1970s, and lived ...

Helen Lackner has worked as a consultant in social aspects of rural development in over thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. She has spent the past four decades researching Yemen, working in the country for fifteen years. Lackner is currently Associate Researcher at the London Middle East Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and was the 2016 Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University. The editor of Journal of the British-Yemeni Society, she is also a regular contributor to Oxford Analytica’s briefs and openDemocracy. Her publications include Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State and Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition (editor). She lives in Oxford.