In this podcast, Fathom’s Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding speaks with Sir John Jenkins, a senior fellow at Policy Exchange and a board member for MENAF (Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum), on whether Saudi Arabia will normalise relations with Israel, how the US-Iran nuclear standoff may play out, and why the UK Government is still not confronting the challenge of Islamism.
Sir John Jenkins served in the Foreign Office for 35 years. He was HM Consul-General, Jerusalem (2003-06), Ambassador to Syria (2006-07), FCO Director for the Middle East and North Africa (2007-09), Ambassador to Iraq (2009-11), Special Representative to the National Transitional Council and subsequently Ambassador to Libya (2011) and Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2012-2015).
