Dr Gillian Kennedy is currently a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. Previously she was a a Leverhulme Fellow at King's College London, where her research focused on diaspora networks among British-Egyptians, while also providing foreign policy analysis for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her book ‘From Independence to Revolution: Egypt’s Islamists and the Contest for Power’, was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press and released in 2017.