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Associate Professor of Russian Politics, UCL

Ben's current research focuses on the law-making process during the legislative stage of policy-making in authoritarian regimes. His empirical work is centred on states of the former Soviet Union. He has a secondary research interest in the politics of criminal law policy-making.

He has been an Associate Fellow of Chatham House since 2020.

Ben completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2016, with a dissertation on the politics of lawmaking in contemporary Russia, which won the Political Studies Association's Walter Bagehot Prize. From 2015 to 2017, he held a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Associate Professor of Russian Politics, UCL
  • 2017–2021
    Lecturer in Russian Politics, UCL

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts