Anil Menon is a Political Science PhD student at the University of Michigan. Before moving to Ann Arbor, he completed an MSc. in Economic History (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Middlebury College. He am also an alumnus of the United World Colleges initiative.

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.