Mats Berdal

Who is Mats Berdal?

Mats R. Berdal is Professor of Security and Development at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

From 2000 to 2003 Berdal was Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Between 2007 and 2011, Berdal was a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College and was a Consulting Senior Fellow at the IISS from 2009 to 2011, responsible for the Institute’s “Economics and Conflict Resolution Programme”.

In 2003, Berdal joined the Department of War Studies, King's College London where he directs the Conflict, Security and Development Research Group and is the Programme Director for the MA in Conflict, Security and Development.

Berdal gained a BSc from the London School of Economics in 1988, and a DPhil from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1992.