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.
Research programme
Technology and National Security Research Programme
A programme at the forefront of national and international debates on the role of technology in transforming the global security landscape.
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This programme aims to provide analysis and insights into military capabilities using OSINT and GEOINT techniques.
This programme examines factors shaping the likely nature of armed conflict in both the near future and further out, with a view to assessing their likely implications for both armed forces and policymakers.
This Project is an initiative to systematically analyse North Korea’s proliferation, procurement and sanctions evasion networks.
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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
Dr Sidharth Kaushal
Senior Research Fellow, Sea Power
Military Sciences
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Jamie MacColl
Research Fellow
Cyber
Nick Reynolds
Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Matthew Savill
Director of Military Sciences
Military Sciences
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber Research
Cyber
Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Fellows
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Oz Alashe MBE
Associate Fellow; CEO and Founder at CybSafe
Dr Casey Babb
Associate Fellow; Senior Analyst, Public Safety Canada
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Katie Benson
Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Dr Stephan Blancke
RUSI Associate Fellow
Al Brown
Associate Fellow - Expert in neurosymbolic artificial intelligence
Professor Gary Brown
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Madeline Carr
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
Isabella Chase
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI
Victor Chavez CBE
Senior Associate Fellow; Former CEO, Thales UK
Dr Jamie Collier
Associate Fellow; Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor, Mandiant
Air Vice-Marshal Sean Corbett CB MBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Sam Cranny-Evans
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
Senior Associate Fellow
William Dixon
RUSI Associate Fellow
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
Distinguished Fellow; Former Director of GCHQ
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
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI
David Jarvis
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor David Kirkpatrick
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Nina Kollars
Senior Associate Fellow; Associate Professor in the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute (CIPI)
Olivier Kraft
Associate Fellow; Technical Assistance Adviser with the International Monetary Fund
Lucas Kuo
RUSI Associate Fellow
Ewan Lawson
Associate Fellow
Dr Peter Layton
Associate Fellow
Professor Ciaran Martin CB
Distinguished Fellow; Former Chief Executive Officer, National Cyber Security Centre
Nick J. Maxwell
Associate Fellow; Director, NJM Research Ltd
Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE
Associate Fellow
Sir Paul Newton KBE
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Jason R. C. Nurse
Associate Fellow; Associate Professor in Cyber Security, University of Kent
Sir David Omand GCB
Distinguished Fellow; Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department, KCL
Dr Marion Oswald MBE
Associate Fellow
Dr Marc Parker
Associate Fellow; Counter-terrorist financing expert
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
Senior Associate Fellow; Financial crime consultant and researcher
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
Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Analysis and Innovation, Thomson Reuters Special Services International
Dr Max Smeets
Associate Fellow; Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative
Dr Simon Staffell
Associate Fellow
Dr Noémi També
Associate Fellow; Independent Financial Crime Consultant and Researcher
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
