Nizar Messari

Vice President for Academic Affairs at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. After teaching for 10 years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he joined Al Akhawayn University in January 2010, first as an Associate Professor in International Studies, before he was appointed Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in June 2012. He is the author of academic articles in English, French and Portuguese in various IR journals. He is the author with João Pontes Nogueira of Teoria das Relações Internacionais: Correntes e Debates, which is in its 10th Edition, and the editor of a forthcoming volume with L.H.M. Ling and Arlene B. Tickner, International Relations Theory: Views Beyond the West. He holds a Phd in International Studies from the University of Miami, Florida.