Imran Bayoumi

  • Associate Director
  • Contact email: ibayoumi@atlanticcouncil.org
  • Media queries: press@atlanticcouncil.org

GeoStrategy Initiative

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Jan 8, 2026

Bayoumi quoted in CBC News on Trump’s approach to Greenland

By Atlantic Council

On January 8, Imran Bayoumi, associate director of the GeoStrategy Initiative, was quoted in a CBC News article titled "With Trump's Venezuela move and Greenland threats, are Canadians vulnerable?" discussing Trump's renewed focus on the Western hemisphere. He argues that US threats of military action against Greenland are unproductive, urging for bolstered cooperation without threats.

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Jan 7, 2026

Bayoumi quoted in BBC on future of Greenland

By Atlantic Council

On January 7, Imran Bayoumi, associate director of the GeoStrategy Initiative, was quoted in a BBC article titled "How could Donald Trump 'take' Greenland?" discussing avenues for increased US engagement with Greenland. He contends that, rather than military action, an influence operation encouraging Greenlandic independence followed by close collaboration with the United States is more likely.

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Dec 2, 2025

Bayoumi in Just Security on solar geoengineering

On December 2, Imran Bayoumi, associate director of the GeoStrategy Initiative, published an article for “Just Security” titled “As Solar Geoengineering Enters its Startup Phase, Governments Must Address Emerging Security Risks” cowritten with Scott M. Moore. The article breaks down potential security risks associated with solar geoengineering and argues governments must act now to regulate […]

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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 work on US grand strategy, defense, and national security. In addition, Bayoumi leads all operations of the GeoStrategy Initiative.

His articles and commentary regularly appear in media outlets such as the New York Times, the BBC, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Globe and Mail, and the New Statesman.

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.