Robert Springborg
Director, London Middle East Institute
PhD in Political Science from Stanford University in 1974.
He was associated with Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, for 27 years, where he became a University Professor of Middle East Politics. While there he founded and administered a Middle East Center and served as President of the Australasian Middle East Studies Association. He also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, and at the University of Sydney and Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He has published two monographs on Egypt, another on the role of legislatures in political transitions in the Middle East, several editions of a textbook that is the most widely used text in the English language on Middle East politics and, most recently, a book on globalisation and the politics of economic development in the Middle East and North Africa.
For more than three years he was one of two key personnel on the Democratic Institutions Support Project for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, D.C., where he administered a project office and interacted with USAID, State and Defence Department staff in the US and the Middle East. From 1997 until August, 2000, he represented an American consulting firm in the Middle East. From August, 2000 to October, 2002, he served as Director of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).
In October 2002, he became Director of the London Middle East Institute.
Spoken languages
English
Written languages
English
