Alex Vines

Alex Vines, OBE, Research Director, Regional and Security Studies; and Head, Africa Programme Chatham House.

Experience

• 2008 - Date Research Director, Regional and Security Studies, Chatham House
• Nov 2009 - Part-Time Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Environment & Society, and Research Associate, African Studies Centre, Coventry University
• 2005 - 2007 Member, later Chair, UN Panel of Experts on Côte d'Ivoire
• 2001 - 2003 Member, UN Panel of Experts on Liberia
• 2002 - Date Head, Africa Programme, Chatham House
• 2002 - Date Senior Researcher, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch (part-time)
• 1999 - 2002 Associate Fellow, British-Angola Forum, Chatham House
• 1999 - Date Editorial boards, South African Journal of International Affairs and (until 2005) Journal of Southern African Studies
• 1993 - 2002 Researcher/Senior Researcher, Arms and Africa Divisions, Human Rights Watch
• 1997 MacArthur NGO Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London
• 1994 - 2000 Research Associate, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
• 1994 Electoral officer, UNOMOZ, Mozambique
• 1992 Electoral officer, UNAVEM II, Angola
• 1990 - 1993 Africa Analyst, Control Risks
• 1989 Research Assistant, National Museums and Monuments, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
• 1988 Graduate Scholar, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya