Hometown: London
Research Interests: International relations, political economy, religion and world politics, political analysis and consociationalism in Lebanon.

Akram earned his undergraduate degree in International Relations from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has also partaken in a full year of law (criminal and contract). In terms of on-the-ground work, he has visited Lebanon numerous times to study waste management issues and possible solutions. He has also covered multiple interviews with the president, army chief and other political leaders for a French political magazine (2018 – 2020).