Imran Bayoumi is an associate director with the GeoStrategy Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. From 2024 to 2025, he served as a policy advisor at the US Department of Defense. At the Scowcroft Center, he supports the center’s work on foresight and strategy development, focusing on emerging technologies, conflict, and climate security. In addition, Bayoumi contributes to the development of the center’s annual Global Foresight publication.

He graduated with his master’s degree in global affairs from the Munk School at the University of Toronto where he held a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and focused his research on the grand strategy of middle powers. He also holds a BA from Queen’s University in political studies. His writing has appeared in outlets such as Foreign Policy, the Globe and Mail, and the Diplomat.