Dr. Ayoub is a professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University College London and an Expert on LGBTI rights advocacy. He served with Aurora Global Advisors as researcher and co-author of the “Guide to Inclusion of LGBTI People in Development and Foreign Policy” with Outright Action International. He is the author of four books and volumes, including When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and his articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Social Forces, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, the European Journal of Political Research, the Review of International Studies, Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, Social Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Movement Studies, among others.