About
Jeremy Keenan, like the Tuareg, is his own man: brave, authoritative and a master of his environment by dint of scholarship and experience.
—Times Literary Supplement
Jeremy Keenan is the West’s most knowledgeable source on the Tuareg and southern Saharan culture. … Keenan is to be commended for examining so critically how the US empire exploits regional events to justify military expansion.
—Times Educational Supplement
Jeremy Keenan is Visiting Professor in the Law School of Queen Mary University London (QMUL). He has previously held professorial positions in four other universities, including London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS).
A graduate of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Jeremy Keenan is a professor of Social Anthropology; an internationally renowned authority on the Sahara-Sahel and the world’s most widely published scholar on the region.
He has over 300 academic publications to his name, including 14 books, with a further 5 in the process of publication, of which 14 are on the Sahara.
His PhD thesis (1972) on the Tuareg of the Sahara remains a seminal work on the region and its people.
He has served as adviser and consultant to numerous international bodies on the political and security situation in the Sahara-Sahel region. Clients include the United Nations, the European Commission, NATO, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and its Defence Ministry; the US State Department, as well as several European governments, international NGOs, and many major multinational companies and broadcasting networks.
He has lectured in 36 universities in 12 different countries.
