North America Team

The Daily Brief is the work of unique interaction between three key communities:

  • Region Heads -- senior academics at Oxford and other universities, who help identify key themes and frame questions that need answering;
  • In-house professional staff, who are experts in their own right and ensure that coverage is of the highest standard and in line with clients' interests; and
  • Network contributors, drawn from universities and think tanks around the world, who are commissioned to provide analysis on specific topics. We do not make our network contributors public.

In-house editorial staff

Tom Wales

Senior Editor, North America and Deputy Editor, Oxford Analytica Daily Brief

Earned a PhD with a dissertation focusing on the Anglo-American intelligence relationship in 2005. Contributing author of The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War (Routledge, 2006). Worked as an analyst for Chase Manhattan in the City of London. Holds a degree in history from Harvard (magna cum laude, 1999).

Region Heads

Dr Nigel Bowles

Deputy Principal and Fellow in Politics, St Anne's College, University of Oxford

Widely-published specialist on US government bureaucracy and presidential politics. Books include The Government and Politics of the United States (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998) and Nixon's Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics (Texas A&M, 2005).

Dr Desmond King

Professor of Politics, St John's College, University of Oxford

Research interests in comparative public policy, labour market policy, education and federalism. Publications include Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Government (OUP, 1997) and The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (OUP, 2004).

Dr Trevor McCrisken

Associate Professor in American Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick

Visiting Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Research interests in US foreign policy, US-Iraq relations, the politics of US nuclear strategy, and the US missile defence system. Author of American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974 (Palgrave, 2003).

Dr Jennifer Welsh

Lecturer in International Relations and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford

Former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A member of the Banff Forum, the Pacific Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Current research interests include Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention, and the prospects for North American integration.