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Ian Taylor
Professor in International Relations and African Political Economy at St Andrews

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He is Professor in International Relations and African Political Economy at St Andrews and also Chair Professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He is also Professor Extraordinary in Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, an Honorary Professor at the Institute of African Studies, China, a Visiting Scholar at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda and a Professor in the Brazilian Centre of African Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Focusing largely on Africa he has authored 9 academic books, edited another 11 and has published over 70 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and over 70 chapters in books. He holds a DPhil from the University of Stellenbosch and an MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and has conducted research in and/or visited 39 African countries. Taylor's academic work has been translated into Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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