Steffen Hertog is an associate professor in comparative politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He joined LSE in 2010 as a lecturer. Hertog was previously the Kuwait professor at Sciences Po Paris, a lecturer in political economy at the University of Durham, and a post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University. He holds an MA from the University of Bonn, an MSc from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.