Duncan McCargo

Duncan McCargo is the Professor of Political Science at the University of Leeds.His work deals mainly with the nature of power: how entrenched elites seek to retain it, and how challengers seek to undermine their legitimacy. He is best known for his agenda-setting arguments about contemporary Thailand and Asia-related topics. He holds three degrees from the University of London: a First in English; then an MA in Area Studies, and a PhD in Politics. He has also taught at Queen's University Belfast, and at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan. In 2006-07, he was a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, while he served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Universiti Utara Malaysia in September 2011. McCargo is a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, an Associate Fellow of the New-York-based Asia Society, and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House in London.