Roxane Batoul Farmanfarmaian (born February 1955) is a British lecturer in international politics at the University of Cambridge. [1] She is the daughter of Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian.
She obtained her BSc from Princeton University, and her MPhil and DPhil from the University of Cambridge.
She is an affiliated lecturer of international politics on the Master of Studies programme at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (POLIS). She heads up the Global Politics and International Studies division of the Institute of Continuing Education of the University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of the Centre for the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa. From 2002 to 2005 she was Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. [2]
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