Roland Dannreuther carried out undergraduate study at the University of Oxford, before working as a consultant at Arthur Anderson.
He then returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate in international relations (DPhil; 1994) with a thesis entitled The Soviet Union and the Palestine Resistance Movement.
In 2009, he was appointed Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster and then, between 2013 and 2015, he was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, after which was promoted to Deputy Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for student experience.
[3][4] Dannreuther's research focuses on Russia, central Asia and the Middle East in the post-Cold War period, typically revolving around international relations and security in those areas.
He has studied the domestic and foreign politics of Russia in relation to those areas, as well as China's energy strategy.