Hussein Askary, a Swedish and Iraqi citizen (Born in Baghdad 1968), is a founding board member and Vice-President of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (2018). The institute was founded to provide objective information and analysis about the Belt and Road Initiative. Askary has a background as an economic and strategic analyst at the International Schiller Institute (headquarters in Germany) since 1996 when the institute published the first comprehensive economic study of “the Eurasian Land-Bridge” also came to be known as the New Silk Road.
Askary has made speeches and presentations in international conferences and seminars on West Asian (Middle East) and African strategic and economic affairs and the New Silk Road / Belt and Road Initiative in Australia, China, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, France, Iran, Japan, Sudan, Sweden, UAE and USA. Articles and analysis by Askary have been published in English, Arabic, German and French in publications worldwide. He is also frequently interviewed by Arab, Iranian, Pakistani, Chinese television and news websites to discuss issues related to the BRI and economic and strategic issues.
His published works include: “Operation Felix: The Reconstruction of Yemen and Connection to the Belt and Road (2018),” “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-bridge, Volume II (co-author | 2018),” and “Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa (main author and project manager | 2017).”
In 2020, he joined the China-Sweden Business Council, in which he is a board member.