Katya Leney (British Red Cross, UK)

Submitted: Tues, 27 July 2004

	
Katya Leney, Ph.D.
Development Officer, Refugee Services
British Red Cross

e-mail:  katyaleney@hotmail.com



Education:
Ph.D. History, University of Cambridge, U.K., 1998; M.Phil. International 
Relations, University of Cambridge, U.K., 1994; LL.B. Law, University of 
Athens, Greece, 1993.

1998: Kirk-Greene Research Fellow in Tropical African Studies, 
St Anthony's College, University of Oxford

1997-1998: Senior Rouse Ball Research Scholar, Trinity College, University 
of Cambridge 

Experience:
2001-2003: Civil Affairs Officer, UN mission in Kosovo
2000-2001: Civil Affairs Officer, UN mission in Sierra Leone
1998-2000: Civil Affairs Officer, UN mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publication:
Decolonisation, Independence and the Politics of Higher Education in West 
Africa.  Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.  ISBN: 0-7734-6853-6.

Research interests:
Peacekeeping, comparative British and French empire, decolonisation, 
education politics, relations between government and universities, human 
rights, civil administration.