Olivette Otele is a Distinguished Research Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, University of London. She holds a Ph.D. from La Sorbonne. Olivette a former Vice President of the Royal Historical Society, received an Honorary Degree from Concordia University, Canada. She was a judge of the International Booker Prize, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. She is a regular contributor to the press (BBC, Guardian) and a broadcaster (Netflix, BBC). Her book African Europeans was shortlisted for the LA Time Book Prize and for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2021. She also advises policymakers on colonial history and restorative justice (Welsh Government, Guardian newspaper).