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.

Founder and CEO of Swedhydro AB consulting company in Sweden since 2014. 

Askary has spoken in international conferences on West Asian 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, Swedish, German and French in publications worldwide. He is also frequently interviewed by Arabic, Iranian, Pakistani, and Chinese television and news websites to discuss issues related to the BRI and Global South Developments.