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RUSI Experts

Professor Michael Clarke
Expertise: UK Defence Policy; NATO and European Union defence issues; terrorism and counter-terrorism in Britain; contemporary UK military operations. Click here for bio 

Dr Jonathan Eyal
Expertise: Communist systems and their security-intelligence apparatus; Post-dictatorship transformation; Central and Eastern Europe ethnic relations; Security relations in the Balkans; European security and defence identity, including questions of enlargement.  Click here for bio

Michael Codner
Expertise: Military strategic theory including forms and limits of the military instrument; Military ethics; Military interoperability. Click here for bio

Dr Tobias Feakin
Expertise: International politics and security, Counter-terrorism policy, new technologies for counter-terrorism operations, and the global security impact of climate change. Click here for bio

Colonel The Hon. Alastair Campbell
Expertise
: Middle East security, Islamic fundamentalism, humanitarian intervention, defence diplomacy. Click here for bio

Andrew Garfield
Expertise
: Intelligence and information operations,counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism. Click here for bio

Professor Malcolm Chalmers
Expertise
: UK security policy, international burden sharing, arms control, conflict prevention. Click here for bio

Dr Sandra Bell
Expertise: Homeland Security and Resilience, Science and Technolgy surrounding Counter-terrorism measures.  Click here for bio

Dr Terence McNamee
Expertise: Peace-building, fragile states, African security, nuclear proliferation. Click here for bio

Alastair Cameron
Expertise: NATO policy and operations, EU defence and security matters, NATO-EU relations and the defence industry in Europe, Energy Security and Missile Defence in Europe. Click here for bio

Knox Chityo
Expertise
: Contemporary Southern African Defence and Security Issues (particularly Zimbabwe); Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Africa; The African Union (AU) and wider Multinational Peace and Security Operations in Africa; US –Africa security relationship (particularly AFRICOM); Sub – Saharan African Military History (pre-colonial and colonial). Click here for bio 

Kate Clouston
Expertise
: US foreign policy, US-UK relations, US-EU relations, civil-military relations (in Afghanistan and in general); energy security; NATO policy and the dynamics of the NATO member states. Click here for bio

Jennifer Cole
Expertise
: Emergency response (UK and international); co-ordination of multi-agency operations; surge capacity in civil contingencies; the role of the media in emergencies. Click here for bio

Shiloh Fetzek
Expertise
: Implications of climate change for defence and security; Sustainable security; AFRICOM as a model for innovative security institutional arrangements; Whole-of-government approaches to security, particularly in relation to climate change. Click here for bio

John Hemmings
Expertise
: International security structures (the UN, NATO, US Alliances with Britain and Japan); East Asian security; Afghanistan; CIMIC. Click here for bio

Garry Hindle
Expertise
: UK counter-terrorism, intelligence and security policy. Human rights, civil liberty and privacy issues. Click here for bio

Adrian Johnson
Expertise
: Political economy of armed conflict; post-conflict reconstruction; force and diplomacy. Click here for bio

Bill Kincaid
Expertise
: Procurement, Defence Management. Click here for bio

Anthony McGee
Expertise
: Critical Infrastructure Protection, Corporate Resilience, Social Resilience, Approaches to Risk, Private Security and Serious organised Crime. Click here for bio

Saqeb Mueen
Expertise
: Muslim world, South Asia, Muslim Diasporas, Counter-terrorism and radicalisation, ethics in war. Click here for bio

Alexander Neill
Expertise: Asia-Pacific security and defence issues, North Korea, China, South-east Asia, Indian-Pakistan relations, Asian globalization issues. Click here for bio

Christopher Pang
Expertise
: Trans-national terrorism; counter-terrorism/insurgency strategy; US and UK foreign and defence policy; the Iraq War; the Iranian nuclear issue; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Gulf Security. Click here for bio

Elizabeth Quintana
Expertise
: Network-enabled capability, unmanned air vehicles and the use of space assets. Click here for bio

Paul Smyth
Expertise
: Military matters, especially operational issues (e.g. COIN), current operations, military training, campaigning, operational art and Joint doctrine, command & control, Escape & Evasion/Conduct after Capture.  Click here for bio

Mark Thomas
Expertise
: Gulf Security; the Iranian nuclear crisis; Iraq; transnational terrorism; proliferation; regional security regimes; and the role of hard and soft power in Middle East politics. Click here for bio

Dr Lee Willett
Expertise: Naval forces and maritime strategy, notably submarines and sea-based land attack weapons, Nuclear strategy & weapons, Strategic arms control. Click here for bio