Meet Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Buffett Institute

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Annelise Riles is the new Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Associate Provost for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.

Professor Riles also joins Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law as a tenured professor—returning to the school where she served as Assistant Professor and Professor from 1997–2002—and she will hold a courtesy appointment in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology. 

She received an AB from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a PhD in Social Anthropology from University of Cambridge. ____

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