Robtel Neajai Pailey

Robtel Neajai Pailey is a Liberian academic, activist and author of the award-winning monograph Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Her core areas of research expertise include the political economy of development, migration, citizenship, race, conflict, post-war recovery and governance.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • 2018–2020
    Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford

Honours

Order of the Star of Africa (Liberia)

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