Gareth Stansfield
Gareth Robert Vincent Stansfield is a British academic, currently Professor of Middle East Studies and Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies at Exeter University.Biography
Stansfield was educated at Hulme Grammar School, followed by Durham University, where he read Geography and was awarded the W A Moyes Prize. He went on to complete an MA in Middle East Politics and a PhD at the same institution. He joined Exeter as a Research Fellow in 2002.
Stansfield has been critical of Turkish policy in Syria.