Roxane farmanfarmaian biography

Associate Professor Roxane Farmanfarmaian is ITO of International Studies at the Institute of Continuing Education, and provides academic direction to an expansion in courses (undergraduate, post-graduate and professional) exploring changes in global politics and international leadership skills.

In particular, she contributes to the University’s offerings on political risk and geostrategic thinking to attract professionals in the field seeking to hone their skills, knowledge and creativity to manage and lead in the quickly evolving environments of cyber security, climate change, terrorism and the new legally fluid international system.

Associate Professor Farmanfarmaian was a member of the Department of Political and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge for the past nine years, teaching on the MPhil and MSt on the International Relations of the Modern Middle East.

In 2013, she was awarded a five year, £646,000 grant from Al-Jazeera Broadcasting Corp to direc