Brad K. Blitz received his Ph.D. in International Development and Education from Stanford University and is currently Jean Monnet Chair and Reader in Political Geography at Oxford Brookes University. He is also director of the International Observatory on Statelessness and a former director of the International Service Programme at Roehampton University, he has taught development studies, international politics, and project management and service delivery.

Brad worked as a policy expert on the Balkans at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC and has published studies on forced migration, post-conflict stabilization, including the return of refugees and democratic transition, citizenship and statelessness in Political Studies, Citizenship Studies, the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Journal of European Social Policy, Politics, Human Rights Review and the Journal of Human Rights, among others. He recently published War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation with Cambridge University Press. In 2001, he served as a Social Development advisor to DFID and the Cabinet Office’s Conflict Prevention Fund on a £12 million regional project entitled ‘Access to Justice, Stability and Security in the Balkans’.  From 2002-05 he directed a World Bank Programme on Legal and Judicial Reform in Albania and later acted as a consultant to the World Bank and Albanian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on a Social Service reform programme.  He is also an external assessor to the Big Lottery Fund (formerly the Community Fund) and is currently acting as an advisor to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).