Harry Verhoeven is the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network and an Associate Member of the Department of Politics & International Relations of the University of Oxford. Among other books, he is the author of Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building (Cambridge University Press) and the editor of Environmental Politics in the Middle East: Local Struggles, Global Connections (Hurst/Oxford University Press). Harry Verhoeven is also a Senior Adviser to the European Institute of Peace.