Professional Activities

Degrees

DLitt. (Doctor of Letters) (2015), University of Oxford.

PhD. (1985) and M.A. (1981) in Political Science, Northwestern University.

Recipient of the David Minar dissertation Award.

B.A. Moderatorship (Honours) in Political and Social Science (1979), Trinity College Dublin.

First Class Honours (1979). Bastable Prize (co-recipient) for top placing in Final Honours School.

Selected fellowships and distinctions

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2017

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Full Professor of Political Science at CERI Sciences Po. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance, University of Oxford. Soares de Oliveira is also joint editor of OUP’s Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations and a fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Research

I work primarily in the fields of public opinion and electoral behaviour, with a focus on Britain and the EU. My research over the last decade or so has had three main themes:

Sam Daws works on the interface of multilateral policy, diplomatic strategy, and geopolitics, with a focus on AI governance. He has worked in UN-related policy roles for over three decades. From 2000 to 2003 he served as First Officer to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York. He later served as Deputy Director in the UK Cabinet Office supporting the Prime Minister’s role as Co-Chair of the UN Panel on the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Please visit my regularly updated Nuffield College Academic Profile.

Research interests

Elections and electoral politics, Comparative Politics and Government , Social & Political Cleavages, SociaI Identity, Social Inequality, Parties & Representation.

Professional Activities

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought: co-convenor with Gary Browning of the Political Thought conference held annually in Oxford UK;

Academic Advisory Board: Independent Social Research Foundation

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Qualifications

BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1st class), Oxford l984

D Phil Sociology, Oxford l987