Philip Robins is an Oxford University Reader in Politics and International Relations, with special reference to the Middle East, and a Fellow of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. Before that, he was the Head of the Middle East Program, which he founded, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs,[1] Chatham House, in London, which he joined in September 1987.
Robins has also worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a journalist based in Jordan for the BBC and The Guardian. Dr. Philip Robins is a member of Review of International Law and Politics journal International Advisory Board; and a member of the advisory board of the British Institute at Anakara BIAA.