Professor Gerasimos Tsourapas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow and a former elected Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant, where he also served as Acting Honorary Treasurer and member of the Research Sub-Committee (2019–2022).
His research explores the international politics of migration across the Middle East and Global South, with particular attention to refugee governance, state–diaspora relations, and the exercise of power in inter-state and transnational contexts. His work contributes to ongoing debates on migration diplomacy, rentier politics, and transnational repression.
He is the author of The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which received the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award from the International Studies Association, and Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (Manchester University Press, 2021). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies and leads several international research projects funded by the European Research Council, Horizon Europe, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.