Analyst
Tom Wales
Deputy Director of Analysis
Joined Oxford Analytica in 2005. Holds a PhD and a MSC (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh with a dissertation focusing on the Anglo-American intelligence relationship and a BA in History, magna cum laude from Harvard. Contributing author of The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War (Routledge, 2006). Worked as an analyst for Chase Manhattan in the City of London.
Region Heads
Dr Nigel Bowles
Deputy Principal and Fellow in Politics, St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Widely-published specialist on US government bureaucracy and presidential politics. Books include The Government and Politics of the United States (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998) and Nixon's Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics (Texas A&M, 2005).
Dr Desmond King
Professor of Politics, St John's College, University of Oxford
Research interests in comparative public policy, labour market policy, education and federalism. Publications include Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Government (OUP, 1997) and The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (OUP, 2004).
Dr Trevor McCrisken
Associate Professor in American Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
Visiting Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Research interests in US foreign policy, US-Iraq relations, the politics of US nuclear strategy, and the US missile defence system. Author of American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974 (Palgrave, 2003).
Dr Jennifer Welsh
Lecturer in International Relations and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford
Former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A member of the Banff Forum, the Pacific Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Current research interests include Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention, and the prospects for North American integration.
