past events
Speaker: Professor Ali Ansari
Title of talk: ‘From Shah to Sanctions: Nationalism, Nuclear Ambitions, and the Evolution of Iran’s Foreign Policy’
Bio: A world-renowned scholar on Iran, Professor Ansari is the President of the British Institute for Persian Studies and Professor of Iranian History at the University of St Andrews.
Speaker: Sir John Jenkins
Title of talk: ‘The Present and Future of Middle Eastern Geopolitics’
Bio: Sir John is the former Director of the FCO for MENA and Head of the Middle East Programme at Cambridge’s Geopolitics Centre
Speaker: Professor Dima Adamsky
Title: ‘Russia in the Middle East: the Role of the Russian Orthodox Church’
Bio: A leading authority on Russian foreign policy, Professor Adamsky is a visiting fellow at Oxford’s Changing Character of War Centre and one of Foreign Affairs 2025 book of the year awardees.
Speaker: Dr Ezgi Basaran
Title: ‘Turkiye’s foreign policy and regional aspirations’
Bio: A prominent expert on Türkiye’s foreign policy at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
