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Randolph B. Persaud is currently Adviser (Constitutional Affairs) in the Office of the President, Guyana, South America. He previously served in the Office of the President between 2009-210 and was a consultant at OP, 2011-2015.

Dr Persaud was Professor of International Relations at American University in Washington D.C. – 1997-2022, and is now Professor Emeritus since January 1, 2023. He specializes in the areas of race, culture, and international relations, globalization, international and human security, and the politics of identity. Before joining American University, he was Assistant Director for the Center for International Security Studies at York University. At American University, he served as the Interim-Director for the Council on the Americas and Director of M.A. Degree Program in Comparative and Regional Studies. He has consulted with the U.S. State Department, Carnegie Corporation in New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the United Nations via the United Nations University, and the World Bank on Bio-Diversity excellence at the University of Guyana. Dr Persaud was a Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, Sept 2021-April 2022, and Academic Editor of Third World Quarterly. He has been a Faculty Associate, UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, American University, 2019-2023.

Dr Persaud is the author of Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy published by the State University of New York Press; Co-Editor with Alina Sajed of Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives. New York: Routledge (March 2018); and Co-editor and contributor (with N. Kumarakulasingam) to Violence and the Third World in International Relations. London: Routledge, 2019. He has also co-edited three special issues of journals in the field of international studies. His articles have been published in major academic outlets such as Alternatives; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; Race and Class; International Affairs (Chatham House); Connecticut Journal of International Law; Latin American Politics and Society; Millennium, Korea Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, Globalizations, Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations; International Politics Reviews; Foreign Policy, and Postcolonial Studies. Book chapters have been published by leading outlets including Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Lynne Rienner, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Sage, and United Nations University Press. To date, Dr Persaud has also published more than 600 articles in Stabroek News, Kaieteur News, Guyana Chronicle and Guyana Times.

Professor Persaud has delivered talks and participated in scholarly events (in person and by zoom) at the following universities – University of Guyana, (Tain and Turkeyen); University of the West Indies (T&T); University of Toronto; Guelph University; McMaster University; Carlton University; City University of New York; UCLA; Yale University; Georgetown University; NYU; University of Connecticut; University of Kentucky; Virginia Tech; Tufts University (Fletcher School); University of Chicago; Brown University; Johns Hopkins University; Queen’s University (Belfast); University of Sussex; City University of London; LSE; University of Aberdeen; University of Bristol; University of Nottingham; University of Trento (Italy); International Institute of Social Studies, (The Hague); Chubu University, (Japan); Korea University; National Chengchi University, (Taiwan), The American University (UAE), and the University of Sussex.