Announcement of Mohammed Soliman as Visiting Fellow

Third Way is excited to announce today that Mohammed Soliman has joined the Third Way National Security team as a Visiting Fellow.

Vice President of the National Security Program Valerie Shen noted, “We are so excited to launch our first of its kind Visiting Fellow program for National Security here at Third Way and welcome Mohammed Soliman as our inaugural Fellow. Mohammed’s unique technical expertise, business experience, and insight on global technology policy will greatly boost our research and program capabilities in US-China digital competition and cyber enforcement.”

Visiting Fellows provide input and perspectives to Third Way’s National Security team for us to explore and better understand the national security challenges associated with foundational and emerging technologies. Technology is an important enabler of military, economic, and political power. Rapid developments in artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking and social media, and disinformation are profoundly altering the national security landscape. A key focus of the program is bringing together the technology and policy communities to better understand these challenges and together develop solutions.

Visiting fellows will have the opportunity to research emerging military and dual-use technologies, such as encryption, digital assets, cyber, artificial intelligence and related technologies. They will also publish short-form, policy-focused blog posts and op-eds on timely or strategic issues in defense and national security, as well as serve as a panelist or moderator at TW’s public events

Mohammed Soliman is a Manager at McLarty Associates and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Cyber Program. His work focuses on the intersection of crypto, geopolitics, tech, trade in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

A native of Cairo, Mohammed started his career as an engineer and worked as a consultant, providing strategic advisory services for local and international businesses. In Washington, DC, he has also served as a country analyst for the Peace Tech Lab at the US Institute of Peace, as a Huffington Fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and as a Junior Centennial Fellow at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.

Mohammed earned his Bachelor’s Degree in engineering from the Egyptian Aviation Academy and graduated with a Master of Science in Foreign Service with distinction from Georgetown University, where he chaired the Georgetown Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Forum. He is also a 2017 recipient of the Open Society Foundation’s Civil Society Leadership Award. Mohammed is a native Arabic speaker and has a reading knowledge of German, Turkish, and Persian.

On June 21st, Third Way’s national security team launched the US-China Digital World Order Initiative. A bipartisan initiative which underscores that a new and decisive divide pits America’s approach of “digital democracy” against China’s approach of “digital autocracy"—and the US needs to catch up.

Since 2018, Third Way’s national security team has also led the Cyber Enforcement Initiative, a non-partisan public policy initiative dedicated to crafting public policy to combat cybercrime and address the cyber components of traditional crime and national security threats.