Nicholas McGeehan is the Bahrain, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates researcher at Human Rights Watch. He has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, an LLM from the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway, and an MEng from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Prior to working for Human Rights Watch, he founded and ran an NGO that campaigned for migrant workers’ rights in the Gulf. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and comment pieces.