Dr Harry Verhoeven is an Associate Member of the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford and the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN). He is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy and teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University. He is the author of Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan. The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building (Cambridge University Press) and Why Comrades Go To War.

Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. She works on comparative regionalism and the international relations of the Global South, particularly the Middle East.

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.