CISD Members
Director
Academic Members
Dan Plesch
Director of CISD and Senior Lecturer
Applied International Relations, weapons of mass destruction, diplomacy, globalisation and corporate accountability, globalisation and democracy, globalisation and energy, the role of international non-governmental organisations, the United Nations and the Nazis.
- Tel: 020 7898 4840
- Email: dp27@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4426
Felix Berenskoetter
Lecturer in International Relations
International Relations Theory, Identity, Power, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security - Tel: 0207 898 4682
- Email: fb12@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 222
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 & 3, 2012-13
Stephanie Blankenburg
Lecturer in International Economics
Growth theory, economic and institutions, history of economic analysis, development in Latin America. - Tel: 020 7898 4277
- Email: sb123@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 264
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am - 1pm & 5 - 6pm
Catriona Drew
Lecturer in International Law
Public International Law; international legal history (particularly self-determination of peoples), and legal theory
- Tel: 020 7898 4482
- Email: cd4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 533
- Office Hours: Wed 4:30 to 5:30 (Law); Thurs 4:00 to 5:00 (CISD)
Harald Heubaum
Lecturer in Global Energy and Climate Policy, Applied Energy and Climate Studies
International public policy, agenda-setting theory and policy advocacy, environmental policy, global climate change governance, energy policy, geopolitics of energy
- Email: hh15@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4423
- Office Hours: By appointment
Stephen Hopgood
Member
International relations theory; international politics in the twentieth century; theories of the state - Tel: 020 7898 4738
- Email: sh18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 209
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 10am-12pm
Mark Laffey
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
International relations theory; international security; historical sociology; postcolonial theory; foreign policy analysis; U.S. foreign policy; ideas, culture and ideology
- Tel: 020 7898 4744
- Email: ml23@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 211
- Office Hours: Mondays 4-6pm (Term 1), Mondays 12-2pm
Peter Muchlinski
Professor of Multinational Enterprises in a Globalising World
The regulation of multinational enterprises, international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, foreign investment law, WTO law and practice, competition law, international commercial law and development. - Tel: 020 7898 4751
- Email: pm29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 228
- Office Hours: Monday 5:00 - 6:00 and Thursday 2:00 - 3:00
Sutha Nadarajah
Lecturer in International Project and Policy Management Practice, General Diplomatic Studies and Practice
International relations theory; international security; global governance; North-South relations; politics of the war on terror.
- Tel: 0207 898 4464
- Email: sn22@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4427
- Office Hours: 4-5pm Tues and Weds
Rahul Rao
Lecturer in International Security
International Security; Indian foreign policy; Political Theory; Social Movements; Human Rights - Tel: 020 7898 4534
- Email: rr18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4424
- Office Hours: Mondays 1100-1300
J. Simon Rofe
Senior Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Studies, Global Diplomacy Programme Director
Dr J Simon Rofe is the inaugural director of CISD's Global Diplomacy Masters distance learning programme. Prior to joining SOAS he was Distance Learning Director at the University of Leicester managing a suite of four International Relations Programmes.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4548
- Email: jsimon.rofe@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 461
Leslie Vinjamuri
Senior Lecturer in General Diplomatic Studies and Practice
International Relations Theory; International Organisation, Post-conflict Reconstruction and State building; the Politics of International Criminal Justice, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights in the war on terror.
- Tel: 020 7898 4758
- Email: lv@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 213
- Office Hours: 3-5pm Mondays
Research Associates
Richard Al-Qaq
Research Associate
Richard Kareem Al-Qaq holds a PhD in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Between 2002 and 2007, Dr. Al-Qaq taught post-graduate International Politics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy
Kerry Brown
Research Associate
Kerry Brown is Senior Fellow at Chatham House on the Asia Programme and a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS. Zidane Meriboute
Research Associate
Currently, Zidane holds the position of Senior Consultant within the ICRC Unit in charge of the contacts with the religious leaders in Africa.
His research interests are: Islamism, Sufism and Evangelism in Africa; The nature of modern Islamic States.
Paul Schulte
Research Associate
Paul Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, as well as being a Research Associate in the Disarmament and Globalisation Program at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
Peter Slinn
Peter was Head of the Law Department at SOAS (1990-1994), and after retirement from full-time teaching, was Director of the SOAS MA in International Studies and Diplomacy at CISD until 2007.
Boni Sones OBE
Research Associate
Boni is a BBC Correspondent and freelance political editor UK politics who specialises in the communication of social policy and related issues through the web and national, regional and local media.
Brian Wood
Research Associate
Human rights; arms control, in particular small arms and light weapons in the developing world; Security Sector Reform (SSR); Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) processes.
Teaching Fellows
Joanna Dingwall
Teaching Fellow
Joanna holds an LLB (first class honours) from the University of Glasgow School of Law and an LLM (International Legal Studies) from New York University Law School, where she was a Saint Andrew's Society scholar and recipient of the Rankin-Stone Award for 2003. She is admitted as an attorney in New York State and as a solicitor in Scotland and in England & Wales.
- Email: jd101@soas.ac.uk
Osiel González Dávila
Environmental and Resource Economics, Health Economics, groundwater contamination, food security, poverty, game theory, analysis of household surveys, Microeconometrics and documentary filmmaking.
- Email: osiel.davila@soas.ac.uk
Vino Kanapathipillai
Teaching Fellow
International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.
- Email: vk2@soas.ac.uk
Lucja Nowak
Teaching Fellow
Public international law, international investment law, arbitration and litigation, international commercial law.
- Email: ln5@soas.ac.uk
Jago Penrose
Teaching Fellow
I am studying the evolving relationship between enterprise and the finance and banking sector in Vietnam, a rapidly growing transition economy.
- Email: jp48@soas.ac.uk
Pallavi Roy
Teaching Fellow
Political economy researcher and PhD candidate with ten years of experience covering policy, infrastructure and metallic commodities as a financial journalist in India. Experience also includes political economy research on south Asia as well as qualitative risk analysis, the latter while working for a business and political risk consultancy in London, as a region specialist.
- Email: pr16@soas.ac.uk
Ian Shields
Teaching Fellow
Ian's doctoral thesis at Cambridge University is examining the impact the media has on political decision-making on the use of force.
- Email: is24@soas.ac.uk
Miša Zgonec-Rozeij
Teaching Fellow
Miša is currently working in the International Justice Team at Amnesty International, International Secretariat in London. She is the author of several manuals on international criminal law and human rights.
- Email: mz6@soas.ac.uk
Administrative Staff
Harriet Chapman
Clerical Assistant (academic support)
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4831
- Email: hc13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4429
