Gerasimos Tsourapas is 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham, and 2025–26 Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He currently leads a European Research Council-funded project (2022–27), Migration Diplomacy in World Politics (MIGDIPLO), which examines how states across Europe, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia instrumentalise cross-border mobility in their foreign policy.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press) and the author of The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt – Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa – Power, Mobility, and the State (Manchester University Press, 2021). His research has been published in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Affairs, International Migration Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and other leading journals.
His work has received multiple distinctions, including the 2020 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association (ISA), the 2021 ENMISA Emerging Scholar Award, and recognition by the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
He previously held fellowships at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2019–20) and The American University in Cairo (2013–14). He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University, an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Politics from SOAS, University of London.
