Wilfried Swenden

Wilfried Swenden is Professor of South Asian and Comparative Politics. He hails from Belgium where he completed undergraduate studies in Political Science (Leuven) and International Relations (Bruxelles). He completed his D.Phil (University of Oxford) followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in Leuven, funded by the Flemish Fund of Scientific Research (FWO). He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2004. Between 2015 and 2018 he was Co-Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the university.