Nicolas is a final-year DPhil candidate in Politics at DPIR and Wolfson College. In addition, he is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics; a fellow at the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance; and the co-convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris.
I am a DPhil/PhD candidate in International Relations with a focus on International Political Economy. My research interests are economic sanctions, trade conflicts, and environmental economics.
I previously worked as a management consultant in Germany. I hold a BA in Business from the University of St Gallen, an MPhil in Politics from Oxford, and was a Visiting Student at Harvard.
I am Rowing World Champion 2015 and represented Oxford in the 2018 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Now, I am a passionate and very average surfer.
Nicholas is a DPhil candidate researching the differences in legislative debates between democratic, authoritarian, and backsliding regimes. He focuses on the Russian Duma (1996-2021) as a case study, examining the development of formal and informal mechanisms that restrict or facilitate floor time, as well as the growing dissimilarity in speechmaking incentives between government and opposition and between leaders and backbenchers.
His primary research interests include:
I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Fellow at Keble College. My work sits at the intersection of (sub)national regime change studies, historical political economy, and institutional design. My BA project uses mixed methods and leverages evidence from Latin America to comparatively explore how and why taxes, social policies, and market regulations vary inside countries. If you’re keen, you can read more about it here.
I am a DPhil Candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford, in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College. I am also currently a Fellow at the Centre on Armed Groups, based in Geneva.
I completed my DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford in 2024. My research agenda is in the field of Comparative Politics, with a particular interest in the politics of representation, democratic accountability, and citizen involvement in politics. My work has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Policy Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Política y Gobierno, and Revista de Ciencia Política.
