Ms Rosemary Baillon

MSc, BSc

Honorary Research Fellow

Rosemary Baillon was a Research Associate in the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Durham (1995 – 2001). With Professor Ewan W Anderson she is working on a wide range of geopolitical and developmental research programmes. To these, Rosemary Baillon contributes not only her professional expertise in biology, anthropology and ecology, and education but also her business experience in all aspects of project development and management.

Rosemary Baillon holds a first class degree in biological science from Westfield College [University of London] and an MSc in anthropology from University College London.

With Professor Anderson, Rosemary Baillon was for six years responsible for research on the non-legal aspects of the international boundaries, onshore and offshore, of Saudi Arabia. While contributing to all aspects of the research, she had direct responsibility for the ecological and anthropological issues together with a large area of human geography. In the disaster relief field, she coordinated a Department for International Development (DFID) sponsored project also in the Middle East. From 1996 – 2001, based partly in Durham and partly overseas, she supported a team numbering, for surveys, well over a hundred. The result was the development of the largest database in the country and the establishment of statistics offices in each ministry of the administration. In the field, she has taken part in all the intergovernmental negotiations. At the same time, Rosemary Baillon was working on the establishment of a global early warning system. Since 2001 she has assisted in the production of a number of papers on global terrorism. Since October 2008, rosemary Baillon has been the research Assistant to Professor Anderson on his Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship Award: Towards the settlement of boundary disputes in northern Iraq.

For the various research programmes, Rosemary Baillon has worked with Professor Anderson on the production of books and papers. During the six years working on the Saudi Arabian international boundaries, she was responsible for over 25 confidential research reports ranging in coverage from the historical background of the international boundary issue to aspects of current geography and anthropology. During 2000 Rosemary Baillon was responsible for editing Global Geopolitical Flashpoints: An Atlas of Conflict and during 2002 – 2003 for editing A geopolitical Atlas: International Boundaries. During 2008 – 2009, she has edited An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs which was published by Routledge in October 2009.