Dr Maeve Ryan

Dr Maeve Ryan is a Reader in History and Foreign Policy at the Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS), based within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, and Co-Director of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy, the Forum on Future British Strategy, the World Order Study Group, The Engelsberg Programme for Applied History, Grand Strategy and Geopolitics, and the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme, ‘Interrogating Visions of a Post-Western World’. A former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Ryan’s research focuses on modern global history, the history of slavery, emancipation, human rights, and humanitarian governance, British foreign policy and diplomatic history, and on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of world order in the 21st century. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).