Maya Tudors research investigates the origins of stable, democratic and effective states across the developing world, with a particular emphasis upon South Asia. Her recently published book, the Promise of Power (Cambridge University Press, 2013), was based upon her 2010 dissertation, which won the American Political Science Associations Gabriel Almond Prize for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics.

• Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, and Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies (from 1992 to 2001)
• Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Life Fellow, 1992) (from 1979 to 1992)
• Senior Lecturer in War Studies and International Affairs, RMA, Sandhurst (from 1978 to 1979)
• Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1978)
• Undergraduate (1968–71) then postgraduate (from 1972) , Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1968 to 1975)

Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College. She is a political scientist specialising in the relationship between digital technology and government, politics and public policy. She is an advocate for the potential of multi-disciplinarity and computational social science for our understanding of political behaviour and development of public policy in a digital world.

Prior to taking up the full-time post of Director of the RAI in September 2011, Nigel Bowles was for more than twenty years Tutorial Fellow in Politics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He was previously a staff member in the House of Commons before being appointed a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. His intellectual interests lie in American political history and, in particular, in the history of the US Presidency.