Sujit Sivasundaram was born and educated in Sri Lanka. He came to Cambridge in 1994 to study engineering and then natural sciences and history and philosophy of science.

He has taught at LSE, EHESS in Paris, the University of Singapore, the University of Sydney, and the University of Cambridge. He is a world class historian specialising in world history, especially the Pacific and Indian oceans and their islands, the history of race, the history of the British Empire.

Awards and Prizes: Philip Leverhulme Prize (for early-career contributions to research in the UK, 2012) Sackler Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum Fellow and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society