Profile: Richard Schofield, Senior Adviser Menas Borders

A political geographer specialising in boundary questions with a particular focus on the Middle East, he has written extensively for both academic and lay readerships on related matters. Richard has advised governments on territorial issues and has worked with leading international law firms involved in boundary disputes before arbitral proceedings and the International Court of Justice. He has been convening a master's programme on international boundary studies since the mid-1990s, first at SOAS and offered now at King's College, London as the MA in Geopolitics, Territory and Security and has supervised extensive doctoral research into the geopolitics of the developing world. Richard is the founding editor of the journal Geopolitics.