Professor Alan Sharp is Provost of the Coleraine Campus at the University of Ulster. He joined the History Department at Ulster in 1971 and has been successively Professor of International Studies, a post in which he helped to set up degrees in International Studies and, later, International Politics, Head of the School of History and International Affairs, and since 2006 Provost of the Coleraine Campus. The focus of his teaching and research has been 20th-century international history and British foreign policy after the First World War, with a particular emphasis on the making and implementation of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 on which he is an internationally recognised expert. His major publications include The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919 (1991) and two edited collections, Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century: Rivalry and Cooperation (2000) and a special edition of Diplomacy and Statecraft in September 2005, co-edited with Professor Conan Fischer, entitled 'The Versailles Settlement; Enforcement; Compliance; Contested Identities' also published as After the Versailles Treaty (Routledge, 2007). He has also published widely on the Foreign Office under Lord Curzon and the foreign policy of the Lloyd George government.