The institution’s new director tells Fiona McIntyre about tackling financial woes and ‘pissing off politicians’
After running Soas, University of London, from South Africa for his first few weeks in the role, director Adam Habib was glad to catch the last flight to the UK via Doha before Covid-19 restrictions closed travel routes earlier this month.
“That’s how it worked out—I just got in by the skin of my teeth,” he says.