Dr James Ker-Lindsay - Director

James Ker-Lindsay is Director of the Centre and Senior Research Fellow in the European Research Centre at Kingston University. His main areas of expertise are the politics and international relations of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. However, he also works on issues relating to conflict and security in South East Europe and the region's EU integration process. He previously served as the co-ordinator of the Greek-Turkish Forum and as Eastern Mediterranean analyst at the London-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), the world's oldest think tank dedicated to international security issues, where he remains an associate fellow. Other notable experience includes a period spent as head of research at a Greek political affairs consulting firm, where he worked extensively on the Balkans and Turkey. He has also held visiting positions at academic institutions in Greece and Cyprus.

In addition to having published three books - EU Accession and UN Peacemaking in Cyprus (2005), Britain and the Cyprus Crisis, 1963-64 (2004) and The Work of the United Nations in Cyprus (Co-edited, 2001) - he has authored numerous articles and chapters on regional affairs for academic and current affairs publications and has covered both Greek and Cypriot politics for the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has also spoken at many conferences and seminars - including events at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, SOAS, Wilton Park and the Foreign Office - and has been a frequent commentator on regional affairs for the international media, including the BBC, CNN, Radio Free Europe, The Guardian, The Times and Reuters. He is a member of a number of organisations, such as the British International Studies Association (BISA), the European-Atlantic Group, the Association for Cypriot, Greek and Turkish Affairs (ACGTA) and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).

In his capacity as Senior Research Fellow as Kingston University, he is available to supervise PhDs on the politics and international relations of South East Europe. Find out more

EDUCATION

BSc(econ), Politics and Economics - University of London
MA (Distinction), International Conflict Analysis - University of Kent
PhD, International Conflict Analysis - University of Kent

LANGUAGES

Greek, French (reading), Serbo-Croat (basic)

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