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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Dr Susan Williams is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her most recent book is White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa (2021). Her other pathbreaking books include Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, which in 2015 triggered a new, ongoing UN investigation into the death of the UN Secretary-General; Spies in the Congo, which spotlights the link between US espionage in the Congo and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945; Colour Bar, the story of Botswana’s founding president, which was made into the major 2016 film A United Kingdom; and The People’s King, which presents an original perspective on the abdication of Edward VIII and his marriage to Wallis Simpson.

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    Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies