Clement Henry
Clement Moore Henry is Emeritus Professor of Government, the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught from 1987 to 2011. Until May 2016 he was Visiting Research Professor at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore after chairing the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo (2011-2014). He previously taught at the University of California, both at Berkeley (1963-69) and at Los Angeles (1984-86), at the University of Michigan, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and the American University of Beirut, where he directed the Business School in the early 1980s.
Dr. Henry has spent fifteen years in North Africa, the Levant, and Turkey and He continues to be interested in Islamic finance and the development of civil society in the countries he studies. He seeks in the tradition of classic political economy to relate financial as well as economic variables to political development. His courses are still online at http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/chenry/.
Dr. Henry has written, co-authored, or edited 13 books, including, The Arab Spring : Will It Lead to Democratic Transitions ? (coedited with Ji-Hyang Jang), Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ; Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East, (co-athored with Robert Springborg), Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2010; UGEMA 1955-1962: Temoignages, Algiers: Casbah Editions, 2010, expanded 2012; and The Politics of Islamic Finance (coedited with Rodney Wilson), Edinburgh University Press, 2004. He received his AB and PhD from Harvard and, in mid-career, an MBA from the University of Michigan.
