Introduction
Geoffrey Swenson is an Associate Professor of International Politics at City, University of London, an External Affiliate of Ostrom Workshop at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Geoffrey's current research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction, democracy and the rule of law, legal pluralism, and foreign aid. Geoffrey's research has been published in leading journals including International Security, World Development, International Studies Review, Third World Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, Disasters, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He has also managed in-country initiatives in various countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal, and Timor-Leste.
Geoffrey is currently a Fellow-in-Residence with the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. He has also held fellowships at the London School of Economics, Stanford University, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he was an in-country program manager for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal, the founder and in-country director of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project, and a global political party development specialist with the National Democratic Institute. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar, and a JD from Stanford Law School.
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Geoffrey Swenson is an Associate Professor of International Politics at City, University of London, an External Affiliate of Ostrom Workshop at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Geoffrey's current research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction, democracy and the rule of law, legal pluralism, and foreign aid. Geoffrey's research has been published in leading journals including International Security, World Development, International Studies Review, Third World Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, Disasters, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He has also managed in-country initiatives in various countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal, and Timor-Leste.
Geoffrey is currently a Fellow-in-Residence with the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. He has also held fellowships at the London School of Economics, Stanford University, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he was an in-country program manager for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal, the founder and in-country director of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project, and a global political party development specialist with the National Democratic Institute. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar, and a JD from Stanford Law School.
Fields of expertise: Evidence for policy / knowledge valorization, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Policy design and delivery, Social change / social transformations, Social policy, Sustainable Development Goals