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. She is a Fellow, a former Vice President of the Royal Historical Society. She was a judge of the International Man Booker Prize and chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. She enjoys contributing to the press and is a consultant for films in the US. Her 3rd book African Europeans (2020) was ‘A Guardian Best book of 2020’ and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize 2022. It has been translated into six languages. Olivette also advises policy-makers, banks and charities on restorative justice (Welsh Government Audit on Slavery and Colonialism, JRF, the Guardian‘s project Cotton Capital).