NewAfrican magazine has named Graduate Institute professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou as one of its 100 Africans for 2018. The list, published annually, identifies the most influential Africans in politics, business, civil society, education, science, technology, media, culture and sport. In 2016, the magazine had named him amongst the 50 leading African intellectuals.

Professor Mohamedou is described by NewAfrican as “one of the African intellectuals who really matter on the global stage”. Head of the Graduate Institute’s International History department and faculty member of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, he previously served as Associate Director of the Harvard University Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, and as Deputy Director and Academic Dean of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Well known for his research into political violence, warfare and terrorism, he was also recently appointed to the High Level Panel on Migration set up by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, as well as to Kofi Annan’s West African Commission on Drugs.

WATCH Professor Mohamedou discussing his latest book, A Theory of ISIS: Political Violence and Transformation of the Global Order (Pluto Press and the University of Chicago Press) in the video below.