Robert Ledger has a PhD in political science from Queen Mary University of London. He has worked for the European Stability Initiative, a think-tank in Brussels, lectured at several universities in London and currently lives in Frankfurt am Main. He is a Visiting Researcher (Gastwissenshaftler) in the History Seminar at Goethe University and also teaches at Schiller University Heidelberg and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is the author of Neoliberal Thought and Thatcherism: ‘A Transition From Here to There?’ He is currently working on research that examines the development of liberalism and transatlantic relations during the Cold War, as well as a separate project exploring contemporary EU-American relations.
Experience
2017–present
Visiting professor, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
2017–present
Visiting professor, Schiller University Heidelberg
2016–2017
Adjunct lecturer, Florida State University London
2016–2017
Associate lecturer, Kingston University
2015–2015
Junior Fellow, European Stability Initiative
2010–2013
Associate lecturer, Kingston University
2011–2012
Teaching assistant, Queen Mary University London
Education
2014
Queen Mary University London, PhD
2007
Brunel University, MA International Relations
Publications
2017
Neoliberal Thought and Thatcherism ‘A Transition From Here to There?’, Routledge
2015
From Solidarity to ‘Shock Therapy’. British Foreign Policy Towards Poland Under the Thatcher Government, 1980–1990, Contemporary British History