Gerasimos Tsourapas is 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham. He is Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press) and a Senior Fellow at the Henry J. Leir Institute at Tufts University. His research explores the international politics of authoritarianism, with a focus on transnational repression, migration control, and rent-seeking in the Global South. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project Migration Diplomacy in World Politics (MIGDIPLO) and has published widely on how states instrumentalise cross-border mobility for political gain. His books include The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (Manchester University Press, 2021).