Jeremy Keenan

Jeremy Keenan is Visiting Professor in the Law School of Queen Mary University London. He has previously held professorial positions in four other universities including SOAS. He is a social anthropologist, a recognised authority on the Sahara-Sahel, and the most widely published scholar on the region, with over 300 publications. Two of his forthcoming (2026) books, The Global War on Terror in the Sahara and War in the Sahel provide a 2-volume analysis of the GWOT in North, West and Sahelian Africa. He has advised several international bodies on the political and security situation in the Sahara-Sahel region including the United Nations, the European Commission, NATO, the UK’s Foreign Office and Defence Ministry and the US State Department.