Professor Frédéric Volpi
Chair of Politics of the Muslim World, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
Frédéric Volpi is Chair of Politics of the Muslim World in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the Director of the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.
He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2000. Before coming to Edinburgh in 2018, he was based in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He has also taught and researched at Sussex University, Bristol University, and Sciences Po., Paris.
Professor Volpi’s work addresses the processes of democratization and authoritarianism in the contemporary Muslim world, the role of Islamist actors in social and political mobilizations, the construction of the discourse of political Islam, and the contemporary regional and transnational dynamics of North Africa and the Mediterranean region.