Nicholas Westcott
Adviser
Nicholas is Professor of Practice in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London, an Associate at Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations, and a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School. He was Director of the Royal African Society from 2017-2023.
From 2011-17 he was Managing Director in the EU’s External Action Service in Brussels, firstly for Africa and then for the Middle East and North Africa.
After completing a PhD in African history at Cambridge University, he worked from 1982-2011 for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a number of posts in London, Brussels, Washington DC and in Africa, including (from 2008-2011) as British High Commissioner to Ghana and Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo.