prof.dr. AM (Alanna) Sylver O'Malley

Biography

Professor Alanna O'Malley is Chair of Global Governance and Wealth and Head of Department, School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. A historian of international relations, she is an expert on the United Nations, decolonization and the Global South. She is an ERC Laureate, having been awarded a Starting Grant as Principal Investigator of the project: ‘Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within, the Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'. She held the inaugural Chair in United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice at Leiden University until 2021. She has also published her work widely in leading journals including Humanity, International History Review, Past & Present and Journal of Cold War Studies, among others. She is a regular contributor to national and international media including Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN and TRT World.