Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is Deputy Dean of the School of Law and a member of the Board of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Advancement of the Arts. His publications include What If Latin America Ruled the World? (2010) and Story of Death Foretold (2014). He also writes for El Espectador (Colombia) and is a regular contributor to the BBC World Service’s Nightwaves program, The Guardian, and Al-Jazeera.