Adam Roberts - Curriculum Vitae#

Born in Penrith, England, 1940

Educated at Westminster School, 1953-58; Studied Modern History at University of Oxford, Magdalen College, 1959-1962; Graduate research at the London School of Economics, 1965-1968.

Career:

• Assistant editor, Peace News, London, 1962-1965
  
• Noel Buxton Student in International Relations, London School of Economics, 1965-1968
  
• Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics, 1968-1981
  
• Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations, University of Oxford, 1981-1986
  
• Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, 1986-2007
  
• Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and Emeritus *Fellow of Balliol College Oxford, 2007-

Positions

• Elected Fellow of the British Academy 1990
  
• Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George for services to the study and practice of international relations, 2002
  
• Served on Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2002-2008; Member of the United Kingdom Defence Academy Advisory Board, 2003-, and of the Council for Science and Technology, 2010-13.
  
• Served as President of the British Academy 2009-2013
  
• Appointed Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics; and of Saint Antony's College, Oxford
  
• Held Visiting Appointments at New York University, Tokyo University, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars Washington DC

Memberships
Member of the Council of Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) London, 1985-1991; Governor Ditchley Foundation, 2001-11; Member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 2002-2008; Member of the United Kingdom Defence Academy Advisory Board (DAAB), 2003-15.

Lectures

• Delivered Europaeum Lecture, 'International Law and the Use of Military Force: the United Nations, the United States and Iraq', University of Leiden, 2003.
  
• Delivered Lecture in the Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law, 'The Equal Application of the Laws of War: a Principle under Pressure', 2009.
  
• Delivered Gresham College Special Lecture, 'Reinventing the Wheel: the cost of neglecting international history', London, 2010.
  
• Delivered Europaeum Lecture, ‘Civil Resistance and Power Politics: From the Prague Spring to the Arab Spring’, Charles University, Prague, 2013.
  

Interests include mountaineering and cycling.