Doing International Research: Global and Local Methods

About Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams (AGSM PhD FRSA) is an independent academic and visiting Fellow at the University of London (Institute of Education). He has also held posts at the universities of Bristol (Medical School) Birmingham (College of Social Science) Cairo (Conservatoire of Music) Cambridge (Global Security Programme) London (Education and Development) and the United Nations (Leadership Academy).   Originally a professional trumpeter his international interests started with a student visit to USSR in 1972 (without his parents knowledge) across the Berlin Wall to Warsaw Pact countries in 1973 and then to Communist China. From 1980 he worked at Cairo University to replace Soviet staff thrown-out in response to the Russian occupation of Afghanistan and experienced the assassination of Sadat and dictatorship of Mubarak. He then broke boycotts to work in apartheid South African setting up projects for street children. Later he joined the United Nations Leadership Academy in Jordan but had to leave during the build-up to the US/UK occupation of Iraq.   His other books include Researching Power Elites and Leadership (Sage); Leadership Accountability in a Globalizing World; Environmental Victims - New Risks New Injustice; Invisible Victims - Crime and Abuse against People with Learning Disabilities; Terminus Brain - The Environmental Threat to Human Intelligence. He has written for the Times Higher Korea Herald and China Daily and has discussed his research on BBC TV and radio government TV in Kazakhstan and Korea and at the British House of Commons and UN Palais des Nations.