Event

In Conversation with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House): Making Sense of Trump's First 100 Days in Power

Date
14 May 2025
Time
17:00 UK time
Speakers
Dr Leslie Vinjamuri
Where
St Edmund Hall, Pontigny Room, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Series
Oxford International Relations Society
Audience
Public
Booking
Not required
John Oxford Diplomatic Society and Oxford International Relations Society for a fireside chat with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri as the second Trump administration has shaken America’s executive branch, European security, the liberal international order and global economics.

Dr Leslie Vinjamuri is director of the US and Americas programme at Chatham House and Professor of International Relations at SOAS. Dr Vinjamuri leads research initiatives on America's Changing Global Role, Reimagining Multilateralism, and the US, Geopolitics, and the Global South. She is the author most recently of ‘Why Multilateralism Still Matters’ (Foreign Affairs).

Dr Vinjamuri received a BA from Wesleyan University, MSc from LSE and PhD from Columbia University. She began her career at the Congressional Research Service and also worked in the Asia Bureau at USAID. From 2014-16 she was director of the Center on Conflict, Rights and Justice (and previously co-director). She was previously on the faculty of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a fellow of the John M. Olin Institute at Harvard University.