Duncan McCargo

Duncan McCargo is a British academic who is serving as director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently a visiting professor in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, where he was a faculty member from 1993 to 2020. Between 2015 and 2019 he held a shared appointment at Columbia University, where he was a Visiting Professor of Political Science and taught every spring semester. McCargo is also a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, and an associate fellow of the New-York-based Asia Society.