Nigel Gould-Davies

Dr. Nigel Gould-Davies is the Editor of Strategic Survey and Senior Fellow on Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  He taught at Oxford University before joining the British Foreign Office, where his roles included head of the Economic Department in Moscow and Ambassador to Belarus.  From 2010-14 he was head of Policy and Corporate Affairs for BG Group in Central and Southeast Asia. From 2014-19 he taught and conducted research in Asia. He is the author of “Tectonic Politics: Global Risk in an Age of Transformation” (Brookings, 2019). He holds a B.A. and M.Phil. from Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.