Guillaume Beaud

Guillaume Beaud is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Science at the University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), recipient of the OxPo postdoctoral fellowship, and an associate member at Nuffield College. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po (Centre for International Studies), entitled “Ruling Servants. Regime Change and the (Re)Making of the Upper Bureaucracy in Iran and Pakistan”. His research focuses on states, bureaucracies, and civil services in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan across periods of regime change, such as revolutions, coups, and government collapse, with particular interest in provincial administration, foreign service, as well as in issues of taxation, customs, and regulation of trade.

He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, the European University Institute, the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, and the Lahore University of Management Sciences. In 2024, he was awarded the Fondation des Treilles’s Young Researcher Prize. He holds a Bachelor in Political Science from King’s College London, a Master of Research in Comparative Politics from Sciences Po, and a Master in Middle Eastern Studies and Persian from the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco).

His work has been published in the journals Governance, Politix, Critique Internationale, and the Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances, as well as in several edited volumes in Edinburgh University Press, Brill, Edward Elgar, and Palgrave.