Full professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Paris. He is senior research fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations and co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance, University of Oxford.
Soares de Oliveira is also joint editor of Oxford University Press’s Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations, and a fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.
He has carried out extensive fieldwork focusing on the international political economy of African states, especially the extractive industries, the financial sector, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and Afro-Asian relations. He has written several books.

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