Craig Browne
PhD Candidate
Craig Browne is a PhD student on the Handsel Scholarship in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He spent a decade working for the United Nations in Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Yemen, and Ukraine before joining the university. His research looks at the political economy of hunger in armed conflict, with a focus on how international aid interacts with war economies. He has an undergraduate degree in Arabic and Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter, and a Master’s degree in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. In general he is interested in the Arab world, political Islam, international organisations, war economies and governance, and the weaponisation of hunger.