Kim Guiler

Kim Guiler is a Foreign Affairs Analyst in the Department of State’s Office of Analysis for Near East Affairs. She has more than 15 years of experience researching and working on politics, public opinion, and security in the Middle East and North Africa. Kim is an expert on democratic backsliding and populist authoritarianism and has lectured on the topics at multiple universities. At the Department of State, Kim has covered North Africa, Iraq, and the Kurds. Prior to joining the civil service, Kim was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, where her research focused on the politicization of victimhood in Turkey and Tunisia. Kim also has a M.A. from the University of Chicago, and B.A. and B.S. degrees and a certificate in Israel Studies from the University of Florida.