People
The Strategy and Security Institute (SSI) unites high profile academics from across the University of Exeter, taking in the disciplines of Politics, Arab and Islamic Studies, International Relations, Business and Leadership, and beyond. The Institute also incorporates a number of visiting experts, academics and practitioners from a number of other institutions and organisations.
As well as all the experience of academics at Exeter, the SSI has harnessed a wealth of experience through its Advisory Board and its network of Honorary Professors and Fellows that are able to bring realistic practical global experience from across the spectrum of politics, the military, the diplomatic corps, the intelligence services and from government. This network, coupled with our strong links to RUSI, gives the SSI extraordinary breadth and depth.
| Name | Position |
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| Lieutenant General (Retd) Professor Sir Paul Newton KBE | Director |
| Professor Michael Clarke | Associate Director, a former Director RUSI, London |
| Professor Patrick Porter | Academic Director |
| Dr Sergio Catignani | Senior Lecturer in Security and Strategic Studies and Director of Education |
| Dr David Blagden | Lecturer in International Security and Strategy |
| Dr Agnieszka Jachec-Neale | Lecturer, The Law School and MStrat Crisis Watch Tutor |
| Dr Martin Robson | Lecturer in Strategic Studies |
Honorary Professors
| Name | Position |
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| Major General (Retd) Kevin Abraham |
Director of AWCTS Limited |
| Mr Nick Beadle | Former Senior Civil Servant |
| Professor Malcolm Chalmers | Research Director / Director, UK Defence Policy Studies at RUSI |
| Professor Michael Clarke |
Director, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) |
| Mr David Chinn |
Director in McKinsey London Office |
| Honorary Associate Professor | |
| Sir Jon Day |
Former Chairman Joint Intelligence Committee |
| Sir Ciarán Devane | Chief Executive of the British Council |
| Dr Jonathan Eyal |
Senior Research Fellow / Director, International Studies at RUSI |
| Director Corporate Strategy, MOD | |
| Professor The Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield |
Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London |
| Professor Joseph Liow | Associate Dean S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) |
| Sir David Omand | Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Head of GCHQ |
| Sir Hugh Orde | International policing consultant |
| General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus | Chairman, KKR Global Institute |
| Lord Richards of Herstmonceux | Former Chief of the Defence Staff |
| Dr Andrew Rathmell | Director, Aktis Strategy Ltd |
| The Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC | Honorary Fellow |
| Sir John Scarlett | Former Chief of MI6. Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley |
| General Sir Peter Wall | Former Chief of the General Staff |
| Visiting Professor |
Honorary Fellows
| Name | Position |
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| Dr Tarak Barkawi | Associate Professor, Department of Politics, New School for Social Research |
| Dr Stephanie Blair | Independent Conflict and Stabilisation Advisor |
| Mr Steven Bowns | Director at Technology Futures Ltd |
| Mr Andrew Brear | A former soldier and diplomat |
| Sir Anthony Brenton | Diplomat, former Ambassador to Russia, Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge |
| Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles |
Diplomat, former Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| Mr Robert Fox | Journalist and Defence Correspondent |
| Mr Frank Hoffman | Director, National Defense University Press and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University |
| Dr David Jackson | Co Director of Veteran to Veteran (Turning it around) |
| Dr Thomas Mahnken | Professor of Strategy, US Naval War College & Director of External Programs at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins |
| Mr Raymond McKeeve | Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP |
| Mr William Nye | General Secretary to the Archbishops' Council and General Synod of the Church of England |
| Sir William Patey | Diplomat, former Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| Dr Mark Pyman | Shell International Senior Executive |
| Major General (Retd) Andrew Sharpe | Executive Vice President, IR Consilium |
| Dr Jamie Shea | Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO |
| Major General Sandy Storrie | Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Military Strategy) |
| Dr Steve Tatham | Author and practitioner of Strategic Communication and Influence |
| Mr Richard Thompson | Former Foreign Office and more recently Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary |
| Ms Catarina Tully | Director, FromOverHere |
| Mr Mark Turnbull | Communications Director |
| James de Waal | Senior Consulting Fellow in the International Security Department of Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs |
| Mr Rob Wainwright | Director of Europol |
| Control Risks’ Director Government and Defence |
| Name | Position |
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| The Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP | Former Secretary of State for Defence (2009-2010) |
| Sir Jonathon Band | Former First Sea Lord (professional head of the Royal Navy) |
| Mr Victor Chavez | Chief Executive Officer of Thales UK |
| Sir Stewart Eldon | Former Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to NATO |
| Lord Evans of Weardale | Former Director General of the Security Service (MI5) |
| Sir David Omand | Former Director GCHQ and then Permanent Secretary at the Home Office and the MOD |
| The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Pattie | Senior Partner of Terrington Management and former Minister of State for Defence Procurement |
| Mr Andrew Pringle | President, International Government, Defence and Support Services at Kellogg Brown & Root |
| Sir John Scarlett | Advisor at Morgan Stanley, former Chief of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) |
| Mr Robin Southwell | Former Chief Executive Officer of EADS UK |
| The Lord Stirrup | Former Chief of Defence Staff and Member of the House of Lords |
| Sir Kevin Tebbit | Former Director GCHQ and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the MOD |
| Name | Institution |
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| Professor Malcolm Chalmers | RUSI |
| Dr Jonathan Eyal | RUSI |
| Professor Alexandra Gerbasi | Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Director of the Centre for Leadership and Decision-Making, University of Surrey |
| Professor Tony King | Professor of War Studies, University of Warwick |
| Jake Moores | Honorary Professor in Leadership, Plymouth University |
| Dr Andrew Rathmell | Aktis Strategy Ltd |
| Dr Jamie Shea | NATO - Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges |
| Dr Danny Steed | Former Lecturer at the Strategy and Security Institute |
| Morgen Witzel | Fellow of The Business School |
| Crown Media | Media Simulation and Training |
| Name | Department |
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| Professor Sir Steve Smith BSc MSc PhD (Soton) | The Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive |
| Professor Jeremy Black | History |
| Professor Robert Gleave | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
| Professor Janice Kay | Provost |
| Professor Robin Mason | The Business School |
| Professor Andrew Massey | Politics |
| Professor Steve McCorriston | The Business School |
| Professor Richard Overy | History |
| Professor Brian Rappert | Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology |
| Professor Michelle Ryan |
Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology |
| Professor Mike Schmitt | Professor of Public International Law, Law |
| Professor Doug Stokes | Professor of International Relations, Politics |
| Professor Michael Winter | Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute |
| Professor Martin Thomas | History |
| Dr Michael Addo | The Law School |
| Dr Stephane Baele | Politics |
| Dr Victoria Basham | Politics |
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| Senior Lecturer in Law | |
| Dr William Harvey | The Business School |
| Dr John Heathershaw | Politics |
| Mr Alex Janes | The Business School |
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| Dr Klejda Mulaj | Politics |
| Mr Michael Sanderson | The Law School |
| Dr Aurel Sari | The Law School |
| Professor Ruth Sealy | The Business School |
| Dr Mohammed Shareef |
Lecturer in Ethnopolitics |
| Dr Lise Storm |
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
| Dr Catarina Thomson | Senior Lecturer in Security and Strategic Studies, Politics |
Introducing our current MStrat Cohort: their profiles and selected work.
| Name | Broad topic of research |
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| Patrick Bury | Lecturer in Security Sector Management (designate) at Cranfield University, Shrivenham |
| Mike Crofts | The law and ethics of training indiginous forces |
| Alexander Neads | Teaching Fellow - Leadership and Strategic Management, Leadership and Change, Cranfield University |
| Tobias Ruettershoff |
Expert knowledge production in Counter Insurgency |
| Jerry Thomas | Climate change in the Arabian Peninsula |
| Name | Broad topic of research |
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| Tallha Abdulrazaq | Iraqi military strategy |
| Tobias Borck |
Security and Stability in the Middle East |
| Leanne Fuller | Growing Double and Deutero-loop learners: An analysis of the British Army's efforts to inculcate a learning culture amongst junior officers |
| Salem Osseiran | The information environment in military strategy |
| Maria Chiara Slucca | Drone warfare |
| Noel Trew | Proportionality calculations under the Law of Armed Conflict |
| John Bailey | The utility of social science in enhancing military capacity building programmes in an era of persistent engagement |
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Patrick Finnegan - Affiliated PhD Student |
The development of cohesion in irregular forces over time |
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Kit Waterman - Affliliated PhD Student |
American force influences over international economic relationships and US financial markets |
| Name | Subject Area |
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| Captain Mike Crofts RTR | The law and ethics of training indiginous forces |
| Name | Position |
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| Roo Haywood Smith | Institute Manager, Executive Officer to the Director |
| Debbie Ironside-Smith | Administrator, Executive Assistant to the Director |