Dwayne Menezes

Background

About Dwayne Menezes

Dr Dwayne Menezes is a social entrepreneur, foreign policy expert and historian, focusing on the Commonwealth and the Polar Regions. He is the Founder and Managing Director of two London-based international think-tanks: Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI), which is dedicated to Arctic, Nordic, North Atlantic, North Pacific and Antarctic affairs; and Human Security Centre (HSC), which addresses current and emerging threats to human security. He is also the Co-Founder and Director of Arctic Business Advisers and Greenland Development ApS, a London-based investment advisory firm that supports sustainable business and infrastructure development in the Arctic region, with a focus on sustainable transportation, renewable energy, critical minerals and biotechnology. Over his policy career, he has served as Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretary-General; Principal Consultant to the European Parliament Intergroup for Freedom of Religion or Belief; Researcher to a UN Special Rapporteur; Head of the Secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Yemen in the UK Parliament; Governor of a Church of England school; Researcher at the London-based think-tank ResPublica; and on the Management Committee of the UK Polar Network. He is, at present, Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Greenland in the UK Parliament. Over his academic career, he read Imperial and Commonwealth History at the LSE and University of Cambridge, graduating from the latter with a PhD. He then served as Visiting Academic at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford; Research Associate at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge; and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London. He is currently an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London; Honorary Fellow at the UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL; and Affiliate of the UCL Warning Research Centre, UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society of Arts; Vice-President of Arctic Today; Board Member of JONAA; Director of Arctic Business Journal; and Founder and Chair of Think-Film Impact Production. He is the author of several research publications, including The North American Arctic: Themes in Regional Security (London: UCL Press, 2019), and the Associate Producer of four critically-acclaimed films: the Oscar-shortlisted, Emmy-nominated My Enemy, My Brother (2015-17); La Soledad (2016); Complicit (2017) and The Number(2017).