Dr Alexander Betts is a Senior Researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme where he directs the Global Migration Governance Project. He is also the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Wadham College. He has worked at UNHCR Headquarters, as a consultant for the Council of Europe, and as an advisor on the politics of migration and refugee protection to a number of European Governments and NGOs.

Dr Betts is co-author (with Gil Loescher and James Milner) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2008) and a main contributing author of UNHCR’s The State of the World’s Refugees (Oxford, 2006). He is currently preparing a monograph called North-South Impasse: The International Politics of Refugee Protection. He holds a DPhil in International Relations, an MPhil in Development Studies (with Distinction), an MSc in International Relations (with Distinction), and a BA (hons) in Economics (First Class).

See Dr Betts’ staff directory entry at the Department of Politics and International Relations for further details.