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Our Faculty
Leading Academics. Inspiring Every Student.
One of Academy Royale International’s greatest strengths is the calibre of our educators. Our academic faculty includes Rhodes and Fulbright Scholars, recipients of prestigious international awards, and academics who have taught and researched at universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard.
Alongside them, guest lecturers at the cutting edge of their fields bring fresh perspectives from academia, science, business, politics and beyond. Together, their distinction, energy and passion create an academic experience rarely found on programmes of this kind.
Lavanya Rajamani - University of Oxford
Lavanya Rajamani is Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Oxford and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law at St Peter’s College. A former Rhodes Scholar, she holds an LLM from Yale and a DPhil and BCL from Oxford, with extensive academic experience in environmental and international law.
Digby Chappell - University of Oxford
Digby Chappell is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, a member of the Oxford Robotics Institute and a Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s College. He leads the Human Enhancing and Augmenting Technology Lab, developing body-interfacing robotics designed to restore, improve and transform human abilities.
Dr Nikita Hari - University of Oxford
Dr Nikita Hari is Head of the Teaching and Research Design Group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. She holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge and has more than a decade of experience across industry and higher education, alongside several international academic and professional roles.
Dr Charmaine Lang - University of Oxford
Dr Charmaine Lang is an Oxford-GSK IMCM Fellow and Group Leader in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. Her research explores glial-neuron interactions in Parkinson’s disease using advanced cellular, transcriptomic and imaging approaches, with the aim of identifying potential disease-modifying therapeutic targets.
Dr Emine Gökce Phillips - CEO Crypto Index Series
Emine is an entrepreneur and technologist with 18+ years of international experience across the UK, Switzerland, Turkey, and the UAE. Holding a PhD in Software Engineering, she is Co-Founder and CEO of CryptoIndexSeries, leading AI-driven analytics and portfolio solutions for digital assets. She has built scalable data systems, secured international investment, and participated in Tenity and Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator.
Dr Claire Keene - University of Oxford
Claire is a public health clinician with a Master’s in International Health and Tropical Medicine from the University of Oxford. Amongst her many achievements, she managed an HIV and tuberculosis project for Médecins Sans Frontières in Khayelitsha, South Africa, leading the project’s COVID response in 2020.
Dr Jack Andrews - University of Oxford
Dr Jack Andrews is a Senior Research Fellow and Wellcome Early-Career Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He leads the Social Mental Health Lab, where his research focuses on adolescent mental health, peer relationships and school-based interventions, with work featured by major international media outlets.
Joe Watson - University of Oxford
Joe Watson is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford. His research focuses on world models, robot learning and data-driven robotics. He completed his PhD at the Technical University of Darmstadt, studied Information Engineering at Cambridge and has also interned with Google DeepMind’s Robotics team.
Lily Mainwaring - University of Oxford
Lily Mainwaring is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in General Surgery at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on surgical quality assurance, technical performance, training and patient safety. She studied Natural Sciences and Medicine at Cambridge, graduating with a First-Class degree and Distinction in Medicine alongside several academic prizes.
Dr James Thomas - University of Oxford
Dr Thomas is a physician, medical educator, and researcher at the University of Oxford, leading immersive learning, simulation, and VR training at the Oxford Simulation, Teaching, and Research Centre. He holds an MSc in Clinical Education and a PhD, is a Fellow of the UK HEA, and researches generative AI in education. He has international teaching experience, multiple awards, and extensive publications.
Dr Anisa Butt - Kings College London
Anisa is a lecturer in Economics at King’s College London, with a PhD in Economics. Anisa’s research focuses on economic inequalities, with a focus on gender and ethnic income inequality.
Dr Imran Hashmi - University of Oxford
Imran is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in AI and Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, with prior roles at INET Oxford, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of South Florida, and Brunel University London. Expert in AI, modelling and simulation, digital twins, and geospatial analytics, building large-scale computational systems for real-world impact across public health, climate, urban planning, and complex multidisciplinary domains.