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Dr Shinozawa's research interests lie in asset management firms and their products. Recently he has developed a special interest in the areas of corporate governance, and the banking industry in Japan.

International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.

Randa Alami is a Lecturer in Economics at SOAS.

Niki J.P. Alsford is Professor of Anthropology and Human Geography at the University of Central Lancashire and a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS.

Media in the Middle East with particular focus on Iran; diasporas and transnational media; islamophobia; shi’i Islam in the West; third Cinema; big data and digital methods.

Agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy.

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Amharic Language

Lecturer and professor of African anthropology, SOAS 1964-1996; professor of social anthropology, University of Oxford 1996-2008, emeritus thereafter. Fieldwork in eastern Africa 1966-2002 for a number of years in total, among Luo, Giriama and Swahili-speakers, on Islam, entrepreneurship, political ethnicity, language, material culture, and medical anthropology.