Dr. Michael Sampson is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science. His research primarily explores the strategic and distributional consequences of international institutions with a focus on the role of rising powers such as China on global economic governance.
He received his DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford and is a former research fellow and Fulbright Scholar at Princeton University. He also holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Before coming to Leiden he was a college lecturer in international relations at University College and Hertford College, Oxford.