Professor Hubert Faustmann

Professor Hubert Faustmann obtained his PhD in History from the University of Mannheim (1999). He is currently a Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Nicosia, where he has worked since 1999. Additionally, he is the director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Cyprus office since May 2011. In this capacity he leads a small team which organizes and co-organises seminars, workshops and supervises expert reports on various aspects of Cypriot History and Politics.

He was the editor in Chief of the refereed journal The Cyprus Review from 2006 until 2016. He co-writes with Prof. Ahmet Sozen the annual reports about Cyprus for the Political Data Yearbook of the European Journal of Political Research. He is also editor and one of the authors of the bi-monthly FES Cyprus Newsletter, which covers political, social, labour and economic developments on both sides of the divide. Professor Faustmann is an expert on British colonial Cyprus and post-independence Cypriot history and politics including contemporary Cyprus. His research also focuses on the Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean with a special emphasis on Hydrocarbon politics as well as the relationship between state and society where he focuses on Clientelism and Political Patronage.