Former UK PM David Cameron to teach politics at New York University Abu Dhabi
- 17 Dec 2022
Gulf Today Report
Britain’s former prime minister David Cameron will return to public life with a teaching job at a university in Abu Dhabi.
According to sources, Cameron will lecture students on “practising politics and government in the age of disruption” at the New York University Abu Dhabi.
It will be a three-week course in January. It will contain subjects on Ukraine-Russia war and the migration crisis.
The former prime minister has kept a low profile since leaving premiership.
He has first-hand experience of political disruption given that Brexit tore apart his premiership and was the catalyst for his exit from Downing Street.
He held the PM office from 2010 till 2016 while he oversaw the referendum on Britain leaving the European Union.
His “Remain” campaign failed by 48 to 52 per cent, causing his resignation and several years of rolling disruption in UK politics.
It isn't always clear whether or not Brexit will be included in the classes.
According to Financial Times, a friend of the former prime minister said the NYU teaching post was a “logical extension” of talks he had given at schools and universities.
“He led the Tory for eleven years and the country for 6 years and will draw on his experience in teaching the course.”
NYU Abu Dhabi said the university offered limited-time courses in many locations around the world.
“These courses provide students the possibility to have a look at politics collectively,” it said, including that the courses in January could be “taught by famed scholars, writers, artists, journalists, and analysts.”
NYU Abu Dhabi is the primary complete liberal arts and studies campus in the Middle East to be operated overseas through a prime American research university.
NYU Abu Dhabi has integrated a highly selective undergraduate curriculum across the disciplines with a world centre for advanced research and scholarship.
