Professor Alexander Betts

Position

Qualifications

BA (Durham), MSc (Bristol), MPhil (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford)

Research Interests

Refugees, migration, international institutions, African politics.

Background

• Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs (2015-)
• Associate Professor in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford (2011-15)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CISAC, Stanford University (2010-11)
• Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations, Wadham College, Oxford (2007-10)
• Rose Junior Research Fellow in International Relations, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (2006-7)

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

International Relations; Comparative Politics.

Graduate Teaching Areas

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies; International Relations.

Selected Publications

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System (Penguin and Oxford University Press, 2017, with Paul Collier)

Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2016, with Will Jones)

Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development (Oxford University Press, 2016, with Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, and Naohiko Omata)

Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2013)

Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009)

Other

• Serves as a Councillor on the World Refugee Council.
• Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the leading 100 Global Thinkers of 2016.
• Named as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2016.
• Awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research in 2016.
• Named by Thinkers50 as one of the top emerging business influencers in 2017.

E-mail

alexander.betts@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Websites

www.alexanderbetts.co.uk

www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/alexanderbetts