Dr Roxane Farmanfarmaian

Dr Roxane Farmanfarmaian is ITO of International Studies at the Institute of Continuing Education, and provides academic direction to an expansion in courses (undergraduate, post-graduate and professional) exploring changes in global politics and international leadership skills. In particular, she contributes to the University’s offerings on political risk and geostrategic thinking to attract professionals in the field seeking to hone their skills, knowledge and creativity to manage and lead in the quickly evolving environments of cyber security, climate change, terrorism and the new legally fluid international system.

Dr. Farmanfarmaian was a member of the Department of Political and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge for the past nine years, teaching on the MPhil and MSt on the International Relations of the Modern Middle East. In 2013, she was awarded a five year, £646,000 grant from Al-Jazeera Broadcasting Corp to direct the University of Cambridge-Al-Jazeera Media Project, focusing on media in the southern Mediterranean after the uprisings of 2011. In February 2018 she completed a Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies where she worked on Media and Migration in Europe. She received an ESRC Impact grant on Media, Security and Faith post-Charlie Hebdo in 2014 and an Iran Program award from the Annenberg School of Global Communications in 2016 to analyse Iran's Rhetoric Aggression. Previously an international journalist, she continues to be a regular television commentator, opinion writer and corporate consultant on Middle East issues, and to direct the Center of International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa (CIRMENA) at POLIS.