Hugh Lamarque is a political scientist with a doctorate in politics from SOAS, the University of London. He has worked previously for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, Oxford Analytica, AKE Group, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and as visiting research fellow at Lisbon University’s Institute for Social Sciences. In 2020, he helped co-found the United Nations Africa Borderlands Centre, a cross-continental initiative housed in Nairobi. He is part of the Executive Committee of the African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE) and is Africa Editor at the Journal of Borderland Studies (JBS). Lamarque is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh.
