Technology, Security and Intelligence
RUSI’s research spans areas such as the intersection between technology and geopolitics, ethical and legal applications of AI, technology procurement, FinTech and cyber.
The need for key policy decisions across the nexus of technology and security will intensify over the coming decade. RUSI is exploring how technology can assist governments, intelligence agencies and policing in solving problems speedily, while factoring in the legal and ethical challenges relating to new capabilities. Societies must decide on how to use emerging technologies such as quantum computing and synthetic biology, and RUSI’s research provides strategic insight to disentangle the key geopolitical, economic and technical considerations. Working across areas such as technology procurement, surveillance, cyber security, climate change and FinTech, RUSI analyses the benefits of technology, while raising awareness of the inherent risks.
The Technology, Surveillance and Intelligence Policy (TSIP) research stream sits at the intersection between emerging technologies, national security and UK intelligence policy. Through numerous research projects and events conducted in recent years on the role of artificial intelligence in UK national security, data ethics frameworks in policing, and data-driven responses to COVID-19, RUSI has come to be a trusted partner and voice of authority on these issues for the intelligence, law-enforcement and policymaking communities.
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Professor Justin Bronk
Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology
Military Sciences
Jack Crawford
Research Fellow
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Joseph Jarnecki
Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Dr Sidharth Kaushal
Senior Research Fellow, Sea Power
Military Sciences
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Jamie MacColl
Senior Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Nick Reynolds
Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Matthew Savill
Director of Military Sciences
Military Sciences
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber and Tech
Cyber and Tech
Noah Sylvia
Research Analyst for C4ISR and Emerging Tech
Military Sciences
Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Fellows
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Oz Alashe MBE
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Casey Babb
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Katie Benson
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Dr Stephan Blancke
RUSI Associate Fellow
Al Brown
Associate Fellow - Expert in neurosymbolic artificial intelligence
Professor Gary Brown
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Professor Madeline Carr
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Isabella Chase
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Victor Chavez CBE
Senior Associate Fellow; Former CEO, Thales UK
Dr Jamie Collier
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Air Vice-Marshal Sean Corbett CB MBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Sam Cranny-Evans
RUSI Associate Fellow
Professor David Crouch
Senior Associate Fellow - Specialist in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) remediation processes
Oleksandr V Danylyuk
Associate Fellow - Expert in Russian multidimensional warfare
Dr Keith Dear
Associate Fellow
Chris DiBona
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
William Dixon
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
The Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL
Distinguished Fellow
Thomas Ewing
RUSI Associate Fellow
Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng DSc MAE FCGI
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Andrew Glazzard OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Robert Hannigan CMG
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Air Vice-Marshal (Ret’d) Mike Hart CBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Giles Herdale
Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Practitioner
Gareth Heywood
RUSI Associate Fellow
Matt Ince
Associate Fellow
Kayla Izenman
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
David Jarvis
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Nina Kollars
Senior Associate Fellow; Associate Professor in the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute (CIPI)
Olivier Kraft
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Lucas Kuo
RUSI Associate Fellow
Ewan Lawson
Associate Fellow
Dr Peter Layton
Associate Fellow
Professor Ciaran Martin CB
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Nick J. Maxwell
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE
RUSI Associate Fellow, International Security
Sir Paul Newton KBE
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Jason R. C. Nurse
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Sir David Omand GCB
Distinguished Fellow; Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department, KCL
Professor Marion Oswald MBE
Senior Associate Fellow
The Lord Parker of Minsmere GCVO KCB
Distinguished Fellow
Air Chief Marshal Lord Peach KG GBE KCB DL
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Brad Pietras
Associate Fellow; Senior Commercial Advisor to DARPA
Conrad Prince CB
Distinguished Fellow and Senior Cyber Adviser
Mark Proctor OBE
Associate Fellow
Elizabeth Quintana
Matthew Redhead
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, CFS
The Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG KC
Distinguished Fellow
Professor Peter Roberts
Senior Associate Fellow
Major General (Ret) Bill Robins CB OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Daniel Salisbury
RUSI Associate Fellow - Expert in nuclear security and open source intelligence
Dr Jason Shepherd
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, CFS
Dr Max Smeets
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Simona Soare
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Simon Staffell
Associate Fellow
Dr Noémi També
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMG
Distinguished Fellow
Professor Alison Wakefield
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Criminology and Security Studies, University of West London
Dr Paddy Walker
Associate Fellow
Dr Thomas Withington
Associate Fellow - Expert in electronic warfare and air defence
