Dr. Lisa Blaydes

Lisa Blaydes is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2010), State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018), and Social Authoritarianism: States and Status in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region (Cambridge University Press, 2027). She holds degrees in Political Science (PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles and International Relations (BA, MA) from Johns Hopkins University.