Abdelkader Abderrahmane was a nonresident senior fellow with the Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council, where he focused primarily on peace and security in North Africa. Abdelkader Abderrahmane is also a senior researcher with the ENACT program at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) where he works on transnational security in North-West Africa.

Abderrahmane has also worked as a consultant for different firms in the fields of research, political risk and due diligence.

Abderrahmane has published extensively and his articles and analyses have been published in Le Monde, Mail and the Guardian, the Institute for Security Studies, the Atlantic Council and many others. Among his work, he also authored ‘Understanding Algeria’s Foreign Policy in the Sahel’, in The Politics of Algeria (Ed., Y. H. Zoubir, Routledge, 2019).

Abdelkader Abderrahmane holds a Bachelors in Politics and Geography from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, UK and a Master in International Relations from the University of Durham (UK). He speaks English, French and Arabic.