Dr. M. Graeme Bannerman is a Scholar at the Middle East Institute, as well as Board Chair Emeritus of Hands Along the Nile and a Member of the Board of Partnership for a Secure America and on the Advisory Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. Dr. Bannerman is also the founder of Bannerman & Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.

Dr. Bannerman is a former Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as a former Middle East/South Asian analyst on the US State Department Policy Planning Staff. Dr. Bannerman previously taught at several universities, including Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the American University in Beirut. He has served as an international observer of elections in Georgia, the Philippines, Haiti, Pakistan, West Bank/Gaza, Mongolia, Yemen, and Lebanon.