Dr Hugo Rosemont

Dr Hugo Rosemont was appointed Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI in February 2025. His research and policy interests are focused on how to forge effective public-private cooperation in support of defence and national security objectives broadly defined.

Outside RUSI, Hugo works in the technology sector as the Policy and Strategy Lead within the UK National Security, Defence and Public Safety team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In January 2024, following a long association with the alliance, he was appointed as Vice Chair of the UK Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers’ Community (RISC). Between 2022-24, he served as an original member of the Police Science Council formed under the auspices of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPPC). He has served as Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Defence Studies at the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, since March 2017.

From 2023-24, he was the first Director for Policy and Public Affairs in the UK for KBR Inc., including its consultancy, Frazer-Nash. Between 2020-23, he was the first UK-based Defence and National Security Policy Manager for AWS. Before this, he was the Director for Security and Resilience sector activity at the ADS group, the UK trade organisation that promotes the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space industries. Between 2016-17, Hugo was Policy Adviser on Crime, Security and Risk-related issues at the British Retail Consortium (BRC), where his focus was on cyber security.

Prior to this, he served as Teaching Fellow and Assistant Director of the Centre for Defence Studies within the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. Between 2008-12, Hugo served at ADS for the first time as Policy Adviser (Security and Resilience), involved at the outset of the formation of RISC. Earlier in his career, he was the Security Executive for both the winning London 2012 Olympic bid team and the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG).

Hugo holds Masters degrees in European Politics from London Birkbeck University and International Security Studies from the University of St Andrews, for which he was awarded a distinction in 2006. In April 2015, he was awarded his PhD with King’s College, London, with a thesis on the ‘security-industrial complex’ that reassessed the origins, characteristics and consequences of the private sector’s involvement in the counter-terrorism aspects of contemporary UK national security strategy after 9/11.