Short Bio
Adam Branch is Professor of International Politics at the University of Cambridge and was Director of the Centre of African Studies from 2017-2022. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University and his BA from Harvard University. He is the author of Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda and Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change. His current research focuses on the politics of climate change and on the political ecology of wood energy in East Africa.