Malcolm Chalmers

Deputy Director GeneralSenior Management

Biography

Professor Malcolm Chalmers is Deputy Director General of RUSI and directs its growing portfolio of research into contemporary defence and security issues.

His own work is focused on UK defence, foreign and security policy.

His most recent papers have been on national interest and UK foreign policy, tensions between the rules-based international systems, UK defence budgeting, and the security implications of Brexit.

Chalmers has been an Adviser to Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy since 2012, and was Senior Special Adviser to Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw MP and Margaret Beckett MP.

Recent external publications


Weapons of Mass Debate - Integrating the UK Into the European Discussion

This article by Malcolm Chlamers is part of the Weapons of Mass Debate series published by Institut Montaigne, 28 June 2021