1. Vice-Chancellor's 2020 Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick.
2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
3. Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and Senior Scientist on the EU funded GR:EEN Project (Global Reordering: Evolution through European Networks) that focuses on the EU's role in a multipolar world. He is also Associate Fellow of the Chatham House Asia Programme and co-editor of The Pacific Review .