Dr. Ayman Khalil, born in Jordan is the director of the Arab Institute for Security Studies (ACSIS), a Jordanian organization pursuing research on WMD proliferation, cooperative security mechanisms, and foreign policy.

Earlier in his career he spent five years as liaison officer for United Nations University in Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He is the author of various books, articles, and papers, and edited a 2012 special report produced by ACSIS and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy on prospects for a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. In 1995 he received a doctorate in theoretical physics from Reading University.