Youssef Mnaili is a Research fellow at UM6P University, Morocco and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and editor of Settler Colonial Studies. He is a former Eiffel Excellency Scholar at Sciences Po Grenoble and a former GLD Fellow at the University of Gothenburg. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Italy. His research has been published in The Review of International Organizations, Politics & Society, among other journals.