Adjunct Professor Robert Bowker

Dr Robert Bowker, a specialist on the Middle East, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor at CAIS for 2008-2009. Prior to his appointment, he served with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), with his last posting as Australian Ambassador to Egypt. At different periods in his diplomatic career, he served as Director, External Relations and Public Information, and subsequently Senior Adviser, Policy Research, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza and Jerusalem; Director of Staff of the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies at the Australian Defence College, Canberra and Visiting Reader at CAIS. Dr Bowker is the author of Palestinian Refugees: Mythology, Identity and the Search for Peace (Lynne Rienner, 2003); Beyond Peace: the Search for Security in the Middle East (Lynne Rienner, 1996).