Laurence Whitehead
Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He currently chairs Research Committee 13 of the International Political Science Association (Comparative Democratisation); and the section on Europe and Latin America of the Latin American Studies Association; is member of the Steering Committee of the Red Eurolatinoamericana de Gobernabilidad para el Desarrollo; and Region Head for Latin America at Oxford Analytica.
He also chairs the Area and Development Studies Committee of Oxford University's new Social Science Division. In 1980-81, he was Senior Research Officer at the Latin American Programme of the Wilson Centre, responsible for a project on "Transitions from Authoritarian Rule and Prospects for Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe".
In 1986, the collection Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead, Johns Hopkins University Press) was published in four volumes. In 1985-86, he was Acting Programme Director at the Centre for US-Mexico Studies of the University of California, San Diego.
From 1989-2001, he was joint Editor of The Journal of Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press. In 2002, he became the first Director of Oxford University's new Centre for Mexican Studies. Editor of an Oxford University Press book series Studies in Democratisation, his most recent publications are Democratisation: Theory and Experience (OUP, 2002) and Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia/ Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
He is also member of the Advisory Committee of FRIDE.
Spoken languages
English, Spanish
Written languages
English, Spanish
