Farsan Ghassim is a political scientist whose research focuses on global governance and survey methodology, with a particular emphasis on public attitudes toward international organizations and proposals to reform them. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, and a member of The Queen’s College at the University of Oxford. Before joining University College Dublin he held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Oxford, where he was a Research Fellow in Politics at The Queen’s College, as well as at Lund University and Maastricht University. He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, an MA in Global Affairs from Yale University, and a BSc in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Earlier in his career he worked as a management consultant at Bain and Company and held positions with the German Foreign Ministry, the office of the President of the European Parliament, and the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Ghassim is best known for designing international survey experiments that measure how citizens across many countries want global institutions to be governed. With Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (London School of Economics) and Luis Cabrera (Griffith University) he conducted a six-country study, published in International Studies Quarterly, finding broad public support for a stronger and more democratic United Nations. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, The Review of International Organizations, and with Oxford University Press, and he has provided research input to the organization Democracy Without Borders.
