RICARDO SOARES DE OLIVEIRA
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International
Relations, University of Oxford, a fellow of St Peter’s College, and a fellow at the Global Public
Policy Institute in Berlin. He is Senior Associated Researcher at CMI in Bergen from 2013-15. He
is the author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (2007) and the co-editor of China Returns
to Africa (2008, with Chris Alden and Daniel Large) and The New Protectorates: International
Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States (2012, with James Mayall). His forthcoming
monograph on post-war Angola will be published later in 2014. Soares de Oliveira has worked
in the field of governance and the extractive industries for the World Bank, the European
Commission, Catholic Relief Services, NDI and Oxfam. His commentary has been published in
the International Herald Tribune, Süddeutsche Zeitung, foreignaffairs.com and the Financial
Times. Interviews and references to his work have appeared in, among others, the BBC, New
York Times, Economist, Radio France Internationale, Deutsche Welle and Sunday Times. Soares
de Oliveira has been the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust fellowship, a Visiting Professor at
Sciences Po in Paris, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, a Public Policy Scholar at
the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and a visiting fellow at Yale University.
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Ricardo Soares de Oliveira é Professor Associado do Departamento de Política e Relações
Internacionais da Universidade de Oxford. Adicionalmente, é fellow do St. Peter’s College e do
Global Public Policy Institute de Berlim, Alemanha, bem como Investigador Associado Sénior no
CMI de Bergen, entre 2013 e 2015. É autor de Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (2007), e coeditor de China Returns to Africa (2008, com Chris Alden e Daniel Large) e The New
Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States (2012, com James
Mayall). O seu próximo livro, sobre o pós-guerra em Angola, será publicado em 2014. No
passado, Soares de Oliveira trabalhou sobre Governance e indústrias extractivas para o Banco
Mundial, a Comissão Europeia, Catholic Relief Services, NDI e Oxfam. Paralelamente, publica
regularmente no International Herald Tribune, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Foreign Affairs e no
Financial Times. Entrevistas e referências ao seu trabalho foram publicados, entre outros, na
BBC, New York Times, Economist, Radio France Internationale, Deutsche Welle e Sunday Times.
Soares de Oliveira recebeu, ainda, a bolsa Leverhulme Trust, foi Professor Visitante na Sciences
Po, em Paris e na Universidade de Yale, nos EUA. Foi, igualmente, investigador no Woodrow
Wilson Center, em Washington, DC