Before co-founding RSAI, Red Sea Analytics International, Khaldoon Bakhil was with the Yemeni government where he held senior positions across four ministries. He is a senior advisor on security sector reform for the Geneva-based Center for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)and country coordinator for Yemen . In his position at DCAF, Khaldoon has designed and facilitated high-level dialogues between multiple regional and local actors in Yemen’s ongoing conflict. He routinely advises ranking government officials, the UN, and leading NGOs on security and political issues in Yemen and the broader region. Khaldoon is a participant in the T-20/ G-20 Global Solutions Initiative. He is also an alumni of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and an active member of the Nobel Prize winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.)