Christopher Lamont is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute for International Strategy in Tokyo International University. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow (2008) and MSc in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh (2005) and a BA in International Studies from the University of Mississippi. Previously, Dr. Lamont was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen (2011-2018) and prior to that he was an R.C.U.K. postdoctoral fellow in the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster (2009-2011).

Dr. Lamont has been an expert consultant with the U.S. State Department in Iraq and Libya on research capacity-building and transitional justice, with the Centre for European Security Studies in Moldova on transitional justice, and World Vision International in Kenya on humanitarian assistance. He also organized Social Justice Masterclasses for Tunisian political parties for the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy.

His research focuses on transitional justice, state-building, and post-conflict transitions. His primary sites of fieldwork have included Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia. He has been awarded a number of prestigious grants to support his research, including a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Zagreb, an IREX grant, and fieldwork support from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.