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Knut Heidar
1949 - Present (75 years)
Knut Heidar is a Norwegian political scientist. He was born in Moss. He has a PhD from London School of Economics, and was hired at the University of Oslo in 1975. He was promoted to associate professor in 1980 and professor in 1992. He was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 2007. Fanny Duckert took over on 1 January 2012.
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Jonathan Rodden
1971 - Present (53 years)
Jonathan A. Rodden is an American political scientist. He is a professor of political science at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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Josette Altmann Borbón
1958 - Present (66 years)
Josette Altmann Borbón is a Costa Rican historian, public figure and politician. She previously served as the First Lady of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998 during the tenure of her ex-husband, former President José María Figueres. In June 2016, Altmann was elected Secretary General of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute , an inter-governmental organization dedicated to researching and teaching of the social sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the first woman to become Secretary General of FLACSO.
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Lex Watson
1943 - 2014 (71 years)
Alexander "Lex" Watson, , was an Australian LGBT rights activist, historian and political scientist. Born and first educated in Perth, Western Australia, Watson spent most of his life working for and then later the cataloguing of, gay law reform and the gay rights movement in New South Wales and Australia.
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George Thomas Kurian
1931 - 2015 (84 years)
George Thomas Kurian was an Indian historian and writer known for being the editor of several encyclopedias and reference works. Kurian also was founder and president of the Society of Encyclopedists. He was coeditor of the World Christian Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilizations, the Dictionary of Christianity, and Encyclopedia of Christian Literature.
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Paul Cook
1943 - Present (81 years)
Paul Joseph Cook is an American politician serving as a San Bernardino County Supervisor since 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously elected to the Yucca Valley Town Council from 1998 to 2006, California State Assembly for the 65th district until 2012, and the U.S. representative for California's 8th congressional district from 2013 to 2020.
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Anne Cheng
1955 - Present (69 years)
Anne Cheng is a French Sinologist who teaches at the Collège de France and specializes in Chinese history and the history of Chinese philosophy. Pablo Ariel Blitstein, the author of "A new debate about alterity," describes her as an "important representative of French sinology".
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Patrick Boyer
1945 - Present (79 years)
J. Patrick Boyer is a Canadian journalist, author, and book publisher, was a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1993. He holds an honours degree in economics and political science from Carleton University, a Master's degree in Canadian history from University of Toronto and a Doctor of Laws degree, also from University of Toronto. Boyer studied French-Canadian literature at University of Montreal, and international law at the Academy of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Igor Novaković
1981 - Present (43 years)
Igor Novaković is a Serbian political scientist and director of research at The International and Security Affairs Centre - ISAC Fund. Biography Igor Novaković was born on 9 December 1981 in Novi Sad. He graduated in 2005 from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy, and then enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Master's Program in European Studies in English at the same university. He later studied international relations at the Robert Rufili Faculty of Political Science University of Bologna, and spent one semester at New Bulgarian University in Sofia. He completed his master's degre...
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Wilbert J. Le Melle
1931 - 2003 (72 years)
Wilbert John Le Melle was an American diplomat, author and academician. He served as an Ambassador of The United States to the Republic of Kenya and to the Republic of Seychelles from 1977 to 1980. He was also a president of Mercy College and of the Phelps Stokes Fund.
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Lonna Atkeson
1965 - Present (59 years)
Lonna Rae Atkeson is an American political scientist. She is the LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar in Civic Education & Political Science and director of the LeRoy Collins Institute at Florida State University. She is also an Associate Editor of the political science journal Political Analysis. Her research focuses on campaigns, elections, election administration, public opinion, political behavior, survey methodology, gender, and race and ethnicity.
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Stefano Zacchetti
1968 - 2020 (52 years)
Stefano Zacchetti was an Italian academic specialising in Buddhist studies. From 2012 until his death in 2020 he was Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
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Rod Preece
1939 - 2021 (82 years)
Rodney John Charles Preece was a British-Canadian political philosopher and historian of animal rights and vegetarianism. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Preece authored and edited 19 books on topics including animal rights and welfare, vegetarianism, German politics, socialization in Europe, and political theory.
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Thomas Ehrlich
1934 - Present (90 years)
Thomas Ehrlich is a consulting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. From 2000 to 2010 he was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has previously served as president of Indiana University, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dean of Stanford Law School. He was also the first president of the Legal Services Corporation in Washington, D.C., and the first director of the International Development Cooperation Agency, reporting to President Carter. After his tenure at Indiana University, he was a Distinguished University Scholar at California State University and taught regularly at San Francisco State University.
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Krzysztof Szczerski
1973 - Present (51 years)
Krzysztof Maria Szczerski is a Polish political scientist and politician who has been serving as Poland's Ambassador to the United Nations in New York since 2021. Szczerski previously served, among other positions, as deputy to the Sejm of Poland and Under Secretary and Secretary of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda .
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Christopher Karpowitz
1969 - Present (55 years)
Christopher F. Karpowitz is an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University. He is also an associate director of Brigham Young University's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy.
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Russell Keat
1946 - Present (78 years)
Russell Keat is a political theorist and retired academic. He was Professor of Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 until his retirement in 2006. Education and career Keat was educated at the University of Oxford, where he graduated with a BA and then completed a postgraduate BPhil degree. He began lecturing at Lancaster University in 1970 and spent 24 years there, before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 1994 to take up the Chair in Political Theory. He retired in 2006 and since then he has been an emeritus professor at Edinburgh.
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Yılmaz Büyükerşen
1937 - Present (87 years)
Yılmaz Büyükerşen is a Turkish politician, educator and current mayor of Eskişehir. Biography Büyükerşen graduated from the Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences in 1962. During his academy years, he worked as a reporter, columnist, caricaturist and editor in various newspapers. With his friends from the academy, he established a chamber theatre and later a municipal theatre with funds raised by selling their blood to blood banks.
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Olivier Duhamel
1950 - Present (74 years)
Olivier Duhamel is a French former university professor and politician. As a member of the social-democratic Socialist Party, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004. In 2021 he resigned from the FNSP and his academic position after being accused of the sexual abuse of a minor. In mid-April 2021, French media, citing sources close to the investigation, reported that Duhamel had admitted to sexually abusing his stepson.
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Herman Saatkamp
1942 - Present (82 years)
Herman Saatkamp was the fourth president of Stockton University in Galloway Township, New Jersey. He succeeded Vera King Farris in June 2003. Prior to his appointment at Stockton, Saatkamp fulfilled numerous roles at other universities. On April 22, 2015, Saatkamp submitted his resignation as president, to be effective by August 31. However, on April 28, he initiated a medical leave of absence, citing "past and present health considerations." His departure occurred amidst controversy surrounding Stockton's purchase of the shuttered Showboat casino, which Saatkamp intended to repurpose as an "...
Go to ProfileBonnie Kathleen Campbell , is professor emeritus of political economy at the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal . She has written extensively on issues related to international development, development assistance, governance, and mining.
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Jane Freedman
1968 - Present (56 years)
Jane Freedman is a British–French sociologist and international relations scholar. She is known for her research on issues relating to gender, violence, conflict and migration, including sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflicts and against migrants and refugees. Her research has focused e.g. on violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the refugees of the Syrian Civil War. She "examines women's experiences of forced migration, the insecurities they face and the obstacles that exist to providing full protection of women."
Go to ProfileVictor G. Rodwin is professor of health policy and management at the Robert. F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University where he has taught since 1985. He is also co-director, with Michael Gusmano, of the World Cities Project, a joint venture of NYU Wagner, The Hastings Center, and the Rutgers University School of Public Health.
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Zach P. Messitte
1968 - Present (56 years)
Zachariah Paulo Messitte is an American political scientist, commentator, author, and academic administrator. He served as the 13th president of Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin from 2012-2022. He is currently an Executive Director in the Social Impact and Education practice at Russell Reynolds Associates and based in Washington, D.C. He concurrently serves as the Chair of the Board of Visitors of the David L. Boren College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma and is a member of the Beloit College Board of Trustees. He also is an adviser to the three year Supernova projec...
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Benoît Vermander
1960 - Present (64 years)
Benoît Vermander , also known as Wei Mingde and Bendu , is a French Jesuit, sinologist, political scientist, and painter. He is currently professor of religious sciences at Fudan University, Shanghai, as well as academic director of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Center within the University. He has been director of the Taipei Ricci Institute from 1996 to 2009 and the editor-in-chief of its electronic magazine erenlai. He is also consultor to the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue. He holds a M.Phil in political science from Yale University, a doctorate in the same discipline from Instit...
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Michael Butler
1927 - 2013 (86 years)
Sir Michael Butler was a British diplomat and a collector of 17th century Chinese porcelain. This collection was described by daughter Katharine Butler in her book "Leaping The Dragon Gate". Career Michael Dacres Butler was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, and joined the Foreign Service in 1950. He served in New York, Baghdad, Paris and Geneva before spending a year as Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs 1970–71. He was then Counsellor at Washington, D.C., 1971–72, head of the European Integration Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office...
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Uri Ra'anan
1926 - 2020 (94 years)
Uri Ra'anan, originally named Heinz Felix Frischwasser-Ra’anan , was an American expert in the politics of communist countries, particularly the Soviet Union and China, and in the resurgence of post-Soviet Russia. He taught at Boston University where he was involved in the University Professors Program, and also at the International Security Studies Program . He spoke at the Ford Hall Forum twice, in 1978 and again in 2007.
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Piotr Iwaszkiewicz
1959 - 2021 (62 years)
Piotr Ignacy Iwaszkiewicz was a Polish political historian, translator and diplomat, serving as ambassador to Uzbekistan . Life Piotr Iwaszkiewicz was born in 1959 in Lublin. In 1984, he earned his master's degree in classical philology at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of History. Between 1980 and 1983 he was president of the Faculty students' union. Between 1981 and 1992 he was member of the Solidarity trade union.
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Richard Stubbs
1946 - Present (78 years)
Richard Wallace Stubbs is a British-Canadian professor emeritus and writer on international politics. Stubbs taught at St. Francis Xavier University, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto before joining the Department of Political Science at McMaster University in 1990.
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Endel Laas
1915 - 2009 (94 years)
Endel Laas was an Estonian forest scientist and professor. Laas specialised in forestry and taught at the University of Life Sciences for many years. In 1999 he was awarded the Order of the White Star, third class.
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Angela Wigger
1975 - Present (49 years)
Angela Wigger is a political economist at the Political Science department at the Radboud University in the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on analyzing the global economic crisis, crisis responses and political challenges to these responses from a historical materialist perspective. Focal points are the geopolitics of industrial and antitrust policy, industrial reshoring attempts, the "competitiveness" fetish, internal devaluation and debt-led accumulation in the age of rentier capitalism.
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Nirmal Chandra Sinha
1911 - 1997 (86 years)
Nirmal Chandra Sinha was an Indian tibetologist, author, the founder director of Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology , presently known as the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Deorali near Gangtok. He was known for his contributions to Buddhism and the documentation of the history of Tibet and other states of Central Asia. He was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
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Timo Kivimäki
1962 - Present (62 years)
Timo Antero Kivimäki is a professor of International Relations and Director of Research at University of Bath, United Kingdom who in 2012 was convicted and sentenced to 5 months in prison for spying against Denmark on behalf of Russia.
Go to ProfileJan E. Leighley is an American political scientist. She is a professor of government at American University. She studies the causes of voter turnout in American politics, including election laws, and how those causes can vary among the population.
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Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky
1974 - Present (50 years)
Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky ; born 12 July 1974 in Budapest, Hungary is a Hungarian Sinologist and Mongolist, mostly known for his historical linguistic research on Middle Mongol sources written in Chinese script, currently the Chair of the Department of Chinese Studies at the Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures . Between 2020 and 2022 he worked as the leader of the KRE Sinology Research Group in Budapest, Hungary. He is a regular member of Academia Europaea and the secretary of the Committee on Oriental Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Gilbert Aké
1955 - Present (69 years)
Gilbert Marie N'gbo Aké is an Ivorian academic and politician. He was named Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire by President Laurent Gbagbo after the latter claimed victory in the disputed 2010 presidential election.
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Abiodun Alao
1961 - Present (63 years)
Abiodun Alao is a Nigerian academic and professor of African studies at King’s College London and the programme director of the African Leadership Centre. He is also the chair of the King’s College London Africa Community of Practice and between December 2013 and August 2015 held a visiting professorship position at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. He is the author of A New Narrative for Africa: Voice and Agency, which "examines the perception of Africa in the global system, tracing Africa’s transition from a "problem" to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world...
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Paul Heywood
1958 - Present (66 years)
Paul Heywood is a British academic who is head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Heywood is Sir Francis Hill Professor of European Politics, co-editor of Government and Opposition journal and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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William Watson
1917 - 2007 (90 years)
William Watson was a British art historian who was Professor of Chinese art and archaeology at the University of London. He was a leading member of the teams that organised the Genius of China exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1973 and the Great Japan Exhibition, held in 1981–82. He made a major contribution to Japanese art studies in the UK.
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François Audet
1972 - Present (52 years)
François Audet is a Canadian academician dedicated himself in humanitarian aid in which he worked for 15 years before starting an academic career. He is the founder and director of the Canadian Observatory on Crises and Humanitarian Action Attached to the School of Management Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2012.
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Dave McGrane
1977 - Present (47 years)
David Patrick McGrane is a Canadian professor, political scientist and community activist living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Early life and background Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, McGrane attended Campion College, University of Regina, where he completed a BA in Political Science with High Honours . Subsequently, he obtained an MA in Political Science from York University and a PhD in Political Science from Carleton University .
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Stuart S. Malawer
1944 - Present (80 years)
Stuart Malawer is an international trade lawyer, and distinguished service professor of law at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. He was a founding faculty member of both the Antonin Scalia Law School and Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
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Mitja Saje
1947 - Present (77 years)
Mitja Saje is a Slovenian sinologist. Biography Mitja Saje was born in Ljubljana. He studied at both Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. As a student in the time of former nonaligned Yugoslavia he visited most of European countries, the United States, and North Africa. Then together with Andrej Bekeš in winter 1969–1970, with a basic knowledge of Japanese, he travelled to Japan via the Middle East and India and back to Europe through the USSR. In 1971 the two of them travelled to East Africa and started to learn Chinese. In 1972, he graduated at the Faculty of Economics.
Go to ProfileShelby Faye Lewis is an American political scientist and African studies scholar. She was a professor at a series of academic institutions and also worked as an international development consultant, ultimately becoming professor emerita at Clark Atlanta University, where she has also served multiple times as the Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed her to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
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Yoo Seong-min
1958 - Present (66 years)
Yoo Seong-min , also known as Yoo Seung-min, is a South Korean economist and politician. Yoo is former a member of the Korean Parliament and was the Bareun Party's presidential nominee in the 2017 South Korean presidential election. He is the son of late Daegu court chief, attorney and Member of Parliament, Yoo Soo-ho for Junggu of Daegu.
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Mustafa Şentop
1968 - Present (56 years)
Mustafa Şentop is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party who has served as the Member of Parliament in the 24, 25, 26th, and 27th legislative terms. On 24 February 2019, he was elected as the 29th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly.
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André Freire
1961 - Present (63 years)
André Freire is a Portuguese Full Professor of Political Science at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon University Institute, and a senior researcher at CIES-IUL. Career and civic activities André Freire is a Full Professor of Political Science at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon University Institute., and a senior researcher at CIES-IUL, where he is also the Director of the Observatory for Democracy and Political Representation. He has been conducting research in the fields of Political Behaviour and Political Attitudes , Political Representation, Political Elites and Political Institutions, both at the national and international levels.
Go to ProfileJenny Edkins is a British political scientist, Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. Life Edkins gained degrees from University of Oxford, City, University of London and the Open University. She gained her PhD, on theories of ideology and international politics in relation to discourses of famine, from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1997. She was a cofounder of the Aberystwyth PostInternational Group . She was appointed Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in 2004 and Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester in 2019.
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Nina Khrushcheva
1963 - Present (61 years)
Nina Khrushcheva is a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World a funded project under the aegis of the Open Society Foundation.
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