Geoffrey Swenson

Geoffrey Swenson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at City, University of London, an External Affiliate of Ostrom Workshop at the University of Indiana, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Geoffrey's current research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction, democracy and the rule of law, legal pluralism, international relations theory, and foreign aid.

Geoffrey has held fellowships at the London School of Economics, Oxford University, Stanford University, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he was an in-country program manager for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal, the founder and in-country director of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project and a senior associate for the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, and a global political party development specialist with the National Democratic Institute.

Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar, and a JD from Stanford Law School.

Geoffrey's research has been published in leading journals including International Security, World Development, International Studies Review, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.