Dr. Walter POSCH

(Austria), Middle East Expert, National Defense Academy, Vienna

Dr. Walter Posch serves at the National Defense Academy Vienna (Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management) where he lectures on Islamic fundamentalism and regional security issues. Earlier in his career, he was a research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EU ISS) in Paris, with extensive expertise on Middle East security, particularly Iran, Iraq, Türkiye and Islamism. He holds a PhD in Iranian History from University of Bamberg (Germany) and an MA in Turkish Studies from the University of Vienna (Austria). His research contributions include analyses of Iran’s security apparatus, Islamist movements, and the role of proxies in regional conflict dynamics, making him a widely cited scholar in the field.