SEAN ANDREWS

The Changing Character of Medium Power Maritime Warfare

Captain Sean Andrews is a Principal Warfare Officer and Under Sea Warfare specialist, receiving his commission in 1990 as a Seaman Officer, he has completed extensive sea service in Destroyers, Frigates and Patrol Boats. Captain Andrews has enjoyed the full range of operational sea postings including Command.

Captain Andrews is a graduate of the Australian Command and Staff College, and represented the RAN at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he attended the Joint Advanced Warfighting School. Captain Andrews has embedded and deployed with United States forces, which include the US Navy’s 7th Fleet and the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division. Captain Andrews has deployed extensively in all theatres of contemporary maritime and joint operations including South China and East China Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans, Afghanistan and the broader Middle East region.

Captain Andrews holds a Master’s Degree in Strategy and Policy, a Master’s Degree in Maritime Studies, and a PhD in International Relations. Captain Andrews’s research specialises in International Relations (with a focus on Middle Powers), Maritime Strategy, Maritime Security, Naval and National Policy. Captain Andrews writes and presents internationally on issues of maritime character, and his book ‘Australia’s Maritime Domain: An Integrated Approach’ will be published in 2023.

MARIA DE GOEIJ

Reflexive Control Theory

Maria works as an analyst for Thomson Reuters Special Services International. Before joining TRSSI, Maria has worked for several think tanks in the Netherlands, the UK, and Montenegro. In addition to this, she has been working for several organisations as an analyst and advisor, and has considerable experience of all issues relating to hybrid and grey zone warfare.

Throughout her career, Maria specialised in the analysis of military thought and grand strategy, and strategic influence and statecraft. Her specific interest has been focused on improving contextual situational awareness, finding (qualitative and quantitative) patterns in conflict, including patterns of state and non-state actor behaviour, and the development of early warning systems. Together with the foregoing, her academic interests include the modelling of reflexive control theory.

Maria has a BA degree in European Studies, with a specialism in diplomacy, from The Hague University and an MSc degree in Crisis and Security Management from Leiden University. Maria is fluent in Dutch and English, and has working proficiency in Afrikaans and French. She has limited working proficiency in German, and is currently learning Russian.

DOUG DELANEY

Imperial Soldiers: Eight Men and the Movement of Military Ideas, 1860-1919

Professor Douglas E. Delaney holds the Canada Research Chair in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land forces of the Dominions and India, 1902–1945 (Oxford, 2018), which was runner-up for the Templer Medal in 2019. His latest book is a co-edited volume:  Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars (Cornell, 2021).  He is a former Chair of War Studies at the Royal Military College, and a retired lieutenant-colonel, having served with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and the Canadian Airborne Regiment.  

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dr Dennis Gyllensporre is an Associate Professor in Security Policy and Strategy at the Swedish Defence University and an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He also holds office as the Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. Gyllensporre has 38 years of service in the Swedish Armed Forces. In October 2021, he completed three years of service as the Force Commander for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). He came from a four-year appointment as the Chief of Defence Staff (VCDS in UK terminology) and Director of Special Forces of the Swedish Armed Forces. He was promoted to Lieutenant General in 2014. Gyllensporre has multifaceted credentials in international cooperation and an extensive track record in interaction with political entities. This experience spans from operations at the tactical level to scientific work in renowned journals. He was appointed the military expert to the parliamentary Defence Commission for five years. Gyllensporre has served as a staff officer in various positions, including tours abroad in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sudan, and served as a military advisor in international crisis management at the MoD. He has also been assigned as chief of staff at the Swedish Joint Operations Command and later as head of the Doctrine and Concepts Branch at the European Union Military Staff. In 2008 he was deployed to Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff at Regional Command North of the NATO-led operation (ISAF). Subsequently, Gyllensporre has held several positions in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, including Chief of Staff of the Supreme Commanders staff and Head of the Policy and Plans department. He has studied at numerous military institutions and holds several academic degrees, including a Master of Science in Computer Science (Royal National Institute of Technology, Sweden), Master of Business Administration (Warwick University, United Kingdom), Master of Military Arts and Science (USA Army Command and General Staff College), as well as a PhD in Policy Analysis and Governance (Maastricht University, the Netherlands). He is the author of several books and academic articles on military strategy and security studies.

He is a recipient of the Swedish Armed Forces Medal of Merit in gold for distinguished leadership during combat and war-like situations, the French Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, the Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mali, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award (2001) for academic achievements at U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He was selected as the ‘Leader of Change 2022’ in Sweden for successful work as an adaptation manager. Gyllensporre is inaugurated to the Hall of Fame at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (2017) and the U.S. National Defense University (2022).

EUGENIA O’KELLY

The future of grey zone, major power conflict and the impact on military medicine

Eugenia O’Kelly holds doctorate in engineering from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. Her expertise lies in the strategic design and implementation of technology, with a focus in risk management and medicine. Eugenia O’Kelly’s research has garnered international recognition and has been used to inform policy decisions. Her work has been utilized by both the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to inform public policy recommendations.  Her research has also been covered by news organizations around the world, including The Guardian, The New York Times, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal, further amplifying the impact of her research.

Eugenia O’Kelly also served as an advisor and consultant on various military projects. Prior to the pandemic, she collaborated with SOCOM (Special Operations Command) to develop software for remote, covert field care in challenging environments. Her previous collaboration with the US Marine Corps and the University of California San Francisco medical center resulted in the development of a cutting-edge remote PTSD treatment platform.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eugenia O’Kelly spearheaded an international task force dedicated to researching and strategizing respiratory protection measures for the general public contributing to global efforts in combatting the spread of the virus.  Her team's work not only contributed to the development of evidence-based guidelines and recommendations, but also played a vital role in raising awareness about effective preventative measures, ultimately helping to safeguard communities worldwide against the spread of the virus.

Hubert Annen, Ph.D., is the head of Military Psychology and Pedagogy Studies at Military Academy/ETH Zurich and the head of the Swiss Army assessment centers for prospective Defense Attachés, General Staff Officers, and Professional Officers and NCOs respectively. Parallel to his professional career, he is also still active as a reserve officer in the Swiss Armed Forces with the rank of colonel. From 2016 to 2022 Hubert Annen served as the chair of the management board of the International Military Testing Association (IMTA).

His research interests include the evaluation and validation of assessment and selection procedures for military leaders, motivational aspects in the military context, military education, military values and virtues, and the trainability and measurability of individual resilience. From a more strategic perspective, he would like to focus more on the general added value of psychological knowledge for military training and operations and derive recommendations for military leaders.

Dan joined the Royal Marines in 1996. His early career was focussed on operational roles including in Congo, Kosovo, Iraq, Gulf and Afghanistan. He has worked in Operations, Plans, Policy, Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism, Logistics, Communications and with Special Forces. Dan commanded Bravo Company Group in Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on Op HERRICK 7 for which he was appointed MBE. He served as the Chief of Staff to Headquarters 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines. In 2013, he was given the honour of commanding 45 Commando Group Royal Marines (‘the Mighty Four-Five’) deploying to California, Norway, the Netherlands and Belize in preparation to assume responsibility as the UK’s standby Lead Commando 2015. On promotion to Colonel, he became the RN’s lead for Information Warfare Development and in 2018 was appointed as the inaugural Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to the Navy Board - the Royal Navy’s Strategic tech change agent across Digital, Autonomy, Lethality and Agility. In 2020, in-role as the CTO, Dan was promoted to Brigadier and also made a Member of the Navy Executive Committee (NEC). For his efforts as the RN CTO he was promoted CBE in 2022. Dan is married to Jo, an executive coach, they have two very energetic young children, and when not learning how to be a Dad, the Ducati, ski mountaineering, kite surfing, mountain marathons and kayaking are next on the list.

His research looks at “In an exponential world, the UK continues to approach Strategic military failure - what does good look like for Defence in tech?”

As a junior officer, he participated in humanitarian relief operations in Indonesia following the 2004 South Asian tsunami, and counter-terrorism operations in the Philippines, as well as blue water operations throughout the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf.

While commanding USS SIROCCO (PC 6) he conducted the first homeport shift of a Patrol Coastal crew from the United States to the Kingdom of Bahrain. As executive officer and later as commanding officer of USS JOHN S. McCAIN (DDG 56) from 2018 to 2021, he spent three years returning the ship to full warfighting readiness in the aftermath of a tragic collision at sea, culminating in a highly successful deployment that saw the ship operating throughout the Indo-Pacific, from Vishakhapatnam to Vladivostok and (nearly) everywhere in between.

As the Director of the USS RONALD REAGAN Strike Group’s Maritime Operations Center, he deployed in support of the Afghan withdrawal and Kabul evacuation, as well as operations in the Indo-Pacific– including multiple at-sea engagements with the HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH Carrier Strike Group. Ashore, he has been stationed in the UK and in Germany, supporting multinational naval operations in the North Atlantic and special operations forces in North and West Africa.

Ryan holds a BS in History from the United States Naval Academy and an MA in Defence Studies from Kings College London, which he earned while attending the United Kingdom’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. His research interests are varied and include ethics, organizational behavior, deterrence, nuclear strategy, risk assessment and management, the impact of climate change on security, and civilizational resilience.

Professor Antulio J. Echevarria II currently holds the General MacArthur Chair of Research at the US Army War College.  He has received a doctorate in modern history from Princeton University and has authored six books on strategic thinking: War’s Logic: Strategic Thought and the American Way of War (Cambridge 2021), Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2017), Imagining Future War (2007), Clausewitz and Contemporary War (Oxford 2007), Reconsidering the American Way of War (Georgetown 2014), and After Clausewitz (Kansas 2001).  He is a graduate of the US Military Academy, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College.  He also completed a NATO Fulbright Fellowship (2000-01), a Visiting Research Fellowship at Oxford University (2011-12), a Senior Research Fellowship at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (2017-2019), and an Adjunct Fellowship at the Modern War Institute at West Point (2018-2019).  He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the US Army War College Press, which includes the US Army’s quarterly strategy journal Parameters.

Captain Spillner holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois, with a research focus on real-time expert systems and high-reliability distributed computing, and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam, with a specialization in political theory and behavior and a research focus on emerging democracies and armed conflict.  He was commissioned as a submarine officer in 1999 via the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program.  He served as a junior officer aboard USS OHIO (SSBN/SSGN 726), and then as Navigator/Operations Officer on USS HAMPTON (SSN 767), Executive Officer on USS ALBUQUERQUE (SSN 706), and as Commanding Officer of USS SPRINGFIELD (SSN 761) and USS GREENEVILLE (SSN 772).  He has made four Western Pacific deployments.

Ashore, CAPT Spillner has served as an Olmsted Scholar in the Netherlands, Assistant Nuclear Officer Program Manager on the Navy Staff in Arlington, Virginia, Protocol Branch Head for the NATO Allied Joint Forces Command in Naples, Italy, and Combat Readiness Evaluation Team Senior Member on the staff of Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Dr Kersti Larsdotter is Associate Professor of War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (SEDU) in Stockholm. Her research focuses on military strategy and the utility of force, as well as the dynamics, nature and conduct of war, specifically civil wars and different forms of military interventions. She is the head of the Civil Wars and Military Interventions research group at SEDU, and the manager of the research project, The Use of Force, funded by the Swedish Armed Forces. Her current research is focused on the utility of military assistance for enhancing the security of the sponsor state, as well as on the transnational dynamics of civil wars.

Previously, Dr Larsdotter has been Associate Professor of Military Strategy at the Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College, Norwegian Defence University College, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and a guest researcher at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University; the Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and at the Department of Civil-Military Relations, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Strategic Studies, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and Parameters. She is the editor of the book Military Strategy in the 21st Century (Routledge).

Faisa Loyaan is a policy researcher focusing on the policy dialogue processes and practices related to peacebuilding, reconciliation, gender, and state formation. She leads a research NGO- Creative Alternatives Now (CAN)- based in Kenya and Somalia. Faisa has been leading policy dialogue in partnership with the UN agencies in Somalia- UNSOM, UNICEF and UNDP- on ‘advancing the participation of business in peace-building and development in Somalia”, and the role of women peacebuilders in peace and reconciliation”. She holds MA in Gender Analysis and Development from the University of East Anglia UK and has professionally trained in linguistics, education, and peacebuilding approaches.

Tom Scott is the 2022-23 Royal Navy Hudson Fellow, a Visiting Research Fellow with the Changing Character of War Programme and a First Sea Lord Fellow. Tom joined the Royal Marines in 2004, with much of his early career spent on operations in Afghanistan with 3 Commando Brigade.  More recently he has held a number of planning, policy and strategy roles, including in the Royal Navy’s strategy team during the last Integrated Review. Tom holds a BA in History and Politics from the University of Exeter and an MA in Defence Studies from Kings College London. His research is currently focussed on the militarisation of the arctic and the region’s potential role as a nexus for strategic competition.

Ryan C. Berg is a political scientist and senior fellow in the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on U.S.-Latin America relations, authoritarian regimes, armed conflict, strategic competition, and trade and development issues. He also studies Latin America’s criminal groups and the region’s governance and security challenges. Previously, Dr Berg was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he helped lead its Latin America Studies Program. Dr Berg has served as a research consultant to the World Bank, a Fulbright scholar in Brazil, and a visiting doctoral fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr Berg has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed academic and policy-oriented journals, including The Lancet, Migration and Development, the SAIS Review of International Affairs, and the Georgetown Security Studies Review. In the popular press, his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, CNN.com, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Hill, and the National Interest, among other outlets. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr Berg obtained a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in political science and an M.Sc. in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Hulme fellow. Earlier, he obtained a B.A. in government and theology from Georgetown University.

NICK DIGGLE

A new cold war: How should the UK work with Canada to combat the geo-strategic threat from Russia and China in the Arctic?

Nick Diggle was commissioned into the Royal Navy (as a Warfare Officer) in 1988. He served in the Royal Navy for over 12 years in a range of seagoing and shore appointments including a tour with the United Nations in Georgia. After leaving the Royal Navy, Nick worked briefly for RUSI before joining the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2002. He has served in a range of roles and overseas postings including Muscat and subsequently Mexico City (as Counsellor for Regional Affairs). Most recently he has worked on global counter-terrorism issues in London. His next appointment will be as Minister-Counsellor in the UK’s High Commission in Ottawa. Nick’s research interest lies in geo-strategic threats in the Arctic and how the UK and Canada can work more closely together. Nick holds a BA (Hons) from Durham University and an MPhil from Cambridge University.

MILO JONES

Poland’s Strategic Environment: A Digital Net Assessment

Milo Jones is a political scientist focused on the strategic impact of digital technologies.  Milo was commissioned into the United States Marine Corps in 1989, where he graduated from the US Army’s Airborne course and then served both as a Communications Officer in Asia and as a Series Officer at MCRD, San Diego.  Since leaving the Marines, Milo has worked as a stockbroker on Wall Street and as a management consultant in London.  Dr. Jones is currently a Visiting Professor lecturing on Geopolitics, intelligence, and strategy at both IE University in Madrid and Imperial College London.  He holds a BA from Northwestern University, an MBA from London Business School, and both an MA and a Ph.D. from the University of Kent.  Milo is a fellow of the Center for the Study of Digital Life in New York, and an Associate of the Instytut Bezpieczeństwa i Strategii in Warsaw.  He is the co-author of Constructing Cassandra:  Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001 (2013, Stanford University Press).

Iacovos Kareklas got his B.A. and M.A. Degrees (Honours) in Law from Cambridge University, Magdalene College. He holds a Ph.D. in International Law from London University (London School of Economics and Political Science). He specialized in all fields of Public International Law and every aspect of the Cyprus problem. He conducted sustained and in depth research in the United Kingdom Foreign Office Archives with regard to the critical phases of the Cyprus Question. In the academic year 2003-2004 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Government, Harvard University. He did postdoctoral studies in International Relations Theory with special reference to the Use of Military Force under the worldwide distinguished political scientist, Professor Stanley Hoffmann. At Harvard, he also taught the course Classical Theories of International Relations. In the year 2004-2005, Dr. Kareklas was appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2006 and 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford, where he specialized in the Philosophy of Law.

From 2013 to 2020 he was Associate Professor at the European University Cyprus, where he taught Public International Law, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, and International Politics.

He spent a year as researcher in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) of London (2001-2002), the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2003), the Oxford Centre for Criminology (2006), and has been a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Iacovos is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of his specialization. His latest book entitled Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory was published in New York by Rowman and Littlefield: Lexington Books, in 2020.

In the context of his current academic position as Visiting Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, at the Changing Character of War Centre, he is conducting further research on the Law of War with emphasis on military humanitarian intervention.

RAJA KARTHIKEYA

From war to peace: How the UN reshapes narratives in modern conflicts

Raja Karthikeya is a Political Affairs Officer in the United Nations Secretariat supporting the General Assembly's deliberations on the Middle East. He has previously served with UN special political missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and led the Global Programme on Preventing Violent Extremism at the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism where he supported governments across Asia and Africa in developing inclusive policies to counter violent extremism.

His work has included engaging civil society and youth to ensure inclusive political negotiations, facilitation of national unity government formation efforts, and design of transitional justice mechanisms. As part of his personal efforts to raise awareness about the peace & security dimension of climate adaptation, he crossed the Arctic and Antarctic circles in 2018. Prior to the UN, he has worked with international affairs thinktanks and has published widely on public policy challenges.

Andrew Livsey is the 2021-22 Royal Navy Hudson Fellow and a Visiting Research Fellow with CCW. Andrew has spent most of his career at sea, serving in frigates and other ships in the Baltic, Caribbean, South Atlantic and Arabian Gulf. Service ashore has included Iraq in 2005, leading parts of Royal Navy warfare training and work on UK and NATO doctrine. His research interests are modern naval warfare and the development of military doctrine. He gained the prize for best Masters at the Advanced Command and Staff College in 2017 and has been published in the Mariner’s Mirror and elsewhere.

MAJOR GENERAL EWEN MURCHISON

Royal Navy Hudson Fellow: Hacking the bureaucracy - Developing innovation by instinct

Major General Ewen Murchison was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1989. Regimental duty dominated much of his early career and saw him deploy operationally to Kuwait (1994); twice to Sarajevo, Bosnia (1995, 2000); afloat HMS Fearless as part of the UK contribution to the Global War on Terror (2001); and, twice to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. In 2006 he was awarded an MBE for his impact as a Company Commander and in 2011 was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership of 42 Commando Royal Marines.  A graduate of the Higher Command and Staff Course, he is a Chartered Manager and holds a Master’s Degree in Defence and Security Studies form Cranfield University. He has served twice in the MOD’s Operations Directorate, twice on the staff at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and twice at the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC), most recently as the Head of Futures and Strategic Analysis with responsibility for the Global Strategic Trends programme.  On promotion to Major General in May 2020 he deployed to Kabul for his third tour of Afghanistan as Director of the Ministerial Advisory Group for the Ministry of Interior within NATO’s Resolute Support Mission.

While at Oxford he will study the impact of institutional culture on innovation and transformation.  ‘Hacking the Bureaucracy’ is about challenging the status quo and encouraging organisations with a tendency to resist change to break free from their straight jacket and be more agile and daring.

Ida Maria Oma is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) in Oslo, part of the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo, and wrote her thesis on Norway’s military engagement in Afghanistan. At NDUC she teaches regularly and has directed MA courses on national and international security policy and strategy. She has been part of the IFS-led research programme Security in Northern Europe, and is currently co-heading the Institute’s research programme Norwegian Security Policy in Strategic Perspective.

Dr Oma’s main research interests include Norwegian security policy; small state security strategies; contemporary deterrence; NATO strategy and burden-sharing; security developments in Northern Europe; and Nordic cooperation. She has published on Norway’s military engagement in Afghanistan, NATO burden-sharing and Norwegian security policy, mostly in Norwegian, but also in international journals, including Cooperation & Conflict and European Security. As Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre during Trinity Term 2022, her priority is work on an article manuscript for international publication, in which she explores whether and how the small state of Norway could strengthen deterrence towards Russia.

AIR COMMODORE PHILIP ROBINSON

The Future Command and Control of Air Operations within the 21st Century

Air Commodore Phil Robinson was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1992 as a pilot. He has flown extensively throughout the world, including on operations in Bosnia, Albania, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Lebanon and deployed multiple times to Afghanistan from 2001 to 2018. He deployed to Malta in 2011 to support operations in Libya and was responsible for providing specialist aviation support to the London Olympic Games in 2012. He has a wealth of leadership experience having commanded No 7 Squadron, the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, the UK Chinook Force and RAF Odiham in Hampshire.

He has conducted staff appointments in the Joint Helicopter Command and the Department of Equipment Capability in the Ministry of Defence. He was selected to be the Deputy Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff in 2012 and was subsequently the Personal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Air Staff, gaining a valuable insight into the highest levels of leadership in the MOD and RAF. From 2018 he was Assistant Chief of Staff Operations at the UK Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) with responsibility for all UK Joint operations overseas.

Robinson has worked extensively with the US Military, having served in a US Joint Headquarters in Baghdad, spent an enlightening two months with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell and attended the US CAPSTONE course. More recently, Robinson was the Director of the US led Combined Air and Space Operations Centre in Qatar with responsibility for all US and Coalition air operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

He has attended both the Advanced Command and Staff Course (MA in Defence Studies) and the Higher Command and Staff Course at the UK Defence Academy and he graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2018. He was awarded a Joint Commanders Commendation in 2000, the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in 2001, a bar to the DFC in 2003 and a second bar in 2007. He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2013 and a Commander of the British Empire in 2021.

Robinson will be promoted to Air Vice-Marshal and take over as Air Officer Commanding No 11 Group in December 2021, the RAF’s first multi-domain operations group.

DR JONG UNG CHEON

The rapid development of science and technology and its impact on nuclear issues

Dr Cheon graduated from Korea Military Academy in 1993. He studied Science and International Security at the Department of War Studies of King's College London. He also obtained an MBA degree from Korea University. He earned a PhD degree at the Kwangwoon University in Seoul. Dr CHEON served in Korean Military as an Army officer for 22 years. He did his duty as a commander and staff officer in field units confronting North Korea. He also worked for analysing North Korea's WMDs and neighbouring countries threats and establishing a security strategy to counter these threats at the Army Headquarters and Joint Chief of Staff. After the retirement of Lieutenant Colonel, he served as a Head Director of Analysis & Evaluation Centre in the Security Management Institute of Korea, researched future security strategy and weapon systems.

He has written many articles and research papers concerning military strategy and weapon systems to encounter rapid technological progress and North Korea's threat. He also taught cadets in Korea Military Academy as a full-time lecturer and taught undergraduate students of the Military Science Department of Yeonsung University in Korea as an adjunct professor.

RENE BALLETTA
Royal Navy Hudson Fellow

Commissioned into the Royal Navy as a Warfare Officer in 1992, René has served the majority of his career at sea in a variety of surface platforms that include frigates, destroyers, amphibious assault ships, aircraft carriers and the Royal Yacht. He has been involved in maritime operations across the globe from the NATO-led naval blockade off the Former-Yugoslavia in 1993, through to anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa in 1996; from support operations to land forces in Afghanistan in 2003, through to sitting on the gunline off Libya in 2011. More recently, he has been using his linguistic skills in France as the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF) lead-planning officer for the French Maritime Component Commander during the delivery of the CJEF concept. He graduated from the Ecole de Guerre (the French Advanced Command & Staff Course) in 2017 gaining a French Masters in Management, Command & Strategy and went on to complete his second French Masters in International Relations at the Sorbonne in 2019 whilst working at the French Ministry of Defence. René’s research interests are focused on the development of the Royal Navy’s transformation programme for Forward Presence and how this can assist the delivery of a Global Britain in the 21st Century.

STEFAN BORG
How Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) change the character of warfare

Stefan Borg is Associate  Professor in Political Science at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defense University (SDU). He was previously Associate Professor in International Relations, Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Assistant Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defense University, and Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He holds a BSc in International Relations and an MSc in European Politics and Governance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Political Science from Arizona State University. He is currently pursuing research on Transatlantic security and defence within the SDU’s program on Transatlantic security.

Dr Borg’s work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of International Relations and Development, Geopolitics, Journal of International Political Theory, European Security, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Middle East Critique, and Global Affairs.

AL BROWN
Command and control in a machine learning era – optimising heterogeneous multi-agent human and machine systems

Lieutenant Colonel Al Brown is a Chief of the General Staff Scholar. He commissioned into the Army in 1999 as a Royal Engineer and served in Germany, the UK, Poland, Canada, Jordan, and Oman in a variety of roles including reconnaissance, armoured warfare, construction engineering and bomb disposal. He has been deployed on multiple operational tours, including in the Balkans and Afghanistan. Prior to his attachment to Oxford set up and commanded the UK’s specialist Reserves explosives ordinance disposal and high-risk search Regiment. Al was previously the lead for Defence on the study of global strategic trends in robotics and artificial intelligence and its impacts on conflict. He wrote a short book on this and has been one of the group of government experts providing advice to and speaking at the United Nations. He has also been an occasional guest lecturer at the Royal United Services Institute and the Alan Turing Institute.

DR ANDREW FOXALL

Dr Foxall’s research focuses on defence, foreign policy, political, and security trends in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has given briefings and evidence on these topics to a range of bodies, including the UK House of Commons, UK House of Lords, US Senate, and NATO. He has written for publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, The Times, and many others, and is author of the book Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2014 and 2017) as well as numerous academic articles, book chapters, policy papers, and reports. 

Prior to joining CCW, he was Director of the Russia and Eurasia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society, the international affairs think tank, from 2013 to 2020. While there, he worked on projects supported by a number of entities, including the European Union, NATO, and the US State Department. Before this, he held academic positions at the University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

CHRIS HUGHES
Fake Coups, Failed Invasions and Foreign Interference: How the Maduro regime has maintained power against activists and opponents amidst great power interference.

Chris Hughes is a security researcher currently focused on the contested information environment and great power competition in Venezuela. Previously, he served in the British Army for 10 years in various roles including as an advisor to senior military leaders on culture and politics and as an instructor training UN Peacekeepers in Chile to conduct the DDR process in Colombia

DR CHRISTOPHER LAVERS
Comparative Evaluation of Ethical Smart Sensing Environmental UAV Platform Design, for Military and Civilian Applications

Christopher Lavers has both a Physics degree from the University of Exeter and a Doctorate in liquid crystal optical display device physics. During that time he spent three months at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) Malvern, Worcestershire working with the SP3 liquid crystal team. Chris then undertook a post-doctoral position at Southampton University, developing advanced optical sensors for biochemical environmental applications, working with the Public Health Laboratory Service at Porton Down at the time of the Gulf War. Subsequently, he has held both junior and senior teaching posts at Britannia Royal Naval College, and currently lectures in engineering subjects, including: Earth Observation and Radar. He is Subject Matter Expert (Radar and Telecommunications) for the Naval College, and Principal Scientist in The Dartmouth Centre for Sea Power and Strategy. Chris’s research interests focus on transfer of military technologies to civilian environmental applications, including: high resolution satellite imaging, wildlife thermal imaging, UAV platforms, and space-based sensors. He has provided technical advice to various overseas customers regarding maritime sensors systems, and led a space-based radar market sensing project on behalf of Airbus, UK. Chris has published 6 books in the Reeds Marine Engineering Series, 200 academic papers or articles, several radio interviews, including Radio 4 live in London, and 30 science-art exhibitions sponsored by the Institute of Physics. He is currently supervising several UAV-related projects.

DAMON LOVELESS
US Navy Hudson Fellow 

Commander Damon Loveless holds a Master of Science in Global Business Leadership from the University of San Diego as well as a Certificate in Legislative Studies from Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute. He is also a graduate of the Joint Forces Senior Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.  He earned his Wings of Gold in Kingsville, Texas in 2003. 

CDR Loveless has served operational tours in three strike-fighter squadrons: The VFA-143 Pukin’ Dogs, the VFA-115 Eagles, and the VFA-31 Tomcatters where he served as Executive Officer and Commanding Officer; he also served an operational tour with Carrier Strike Group EIGHT Staff as Flag Aide to the Commander. His initial Fleet aircraft was the F-14B Tomcat with VF-143, deploying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom During this tour he transitioned to the F/A-18E Super Hornet and deployed again with VFA-143 in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as Horn of Africa operations. With Carrier Strike Group EIGHT he participated in BALTOPS 2011 (Baltic Operations Exercise). As a Department Head with VFA-115 he deployed multiple times in the Indo Pacific Area of Operations, conducting numerous Combined and Joint Exercises, as well as participating in disaster relief in the Philippines during Operation DAMAYAN in 2013 in response to Super-typhoon Haiyan.  In Command of VFA-31, he led the squadron during Exercise Northern Edge 2019 as well as a 2020 deployment to the Indo Pacific Area of Operations, forward deployed during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).

Ashore, he was an instructor pilot at the F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Squadron (VFA-122 Flying Eagles), a 2010 DoD Legislative Fellow serving in Congressman Rob Wittman’s Office (VA-01), and most recently in the Pentagon as a Branch Chief on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs’ of Staff in the J-6 Directorate.

CDR Loveless’ personal decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Strike/Flight Air Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and numerous unit awards and citations.

LCDR RICHARD ADAMS
Let the Generals Say No: An Argument for Morally Better Law

An officer in the Royal Australian Navy, Richard is serving as the inaugural Chief of Navy Fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy. His research is focused on the special case of the general - the supreme military commander. Generals serve in ways ordinary soldiers do not, and generals are trusted in ways soldiers are not. The entire spread out chain of command is united in the general, who offers the only connection between the military and politics. Yet Australian law makes it impossible for the general to resist unconscionable political injustice. Richard was an Australian Fulbright Scholar (philosophy) to Yale University. His doctorate is from the University of Western Australia.

GP CAPT CHANTAL BAKER
People Power: How can the Armed Forces protect and enhance employee – employer loyalty and nurture vocation in the transactional climate?

Group Captain Chantal Baker joined the RAF as a Personnel Support Officer in 1999 on a University Cadetship. A personal specialist, she has served on Main Operating Bases including RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Coningsby and the Home of the RAF Regiment at RAF Honington. She has deployed twice to Afghanistan in support of Operation HERRICK, serving with NATO allies and latterly embedded with the US Marine Corps. She was also the combined personnel lead for the Operational Headquarters for Operation ATALANTA, based at Permanent Joint Headquarters. She has served in outer office appointments as ADC and more recently as the Deputy Personal Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief AIR before being awarded the Chief of Air Staff Fellowship to study International Policy at the Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington DC. Following completion of Advanced Command and Staff College in 2013 she served as a Career Manager Supervisor in Air Manning, responsible for all engineer and logistics trades. She returned to RAF Lossiemouth as Officer Commanding Base Support Wing in 2015 and was Air Officer Commanding Number 1 Group’s Fellowship lead before posting to the Remuneration policy team, as the MOD’s interface with the Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body, responsible for leading the Armed Forces’ Pay Round. She moved to her current role as Assistant Head Strategy and Holding to Account for Training, Education, Skills, Recruitment and Resettlement (TESRR) in MOD on promotion in August 2018. She is an active member of the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategic Thinking Forum and alumni of the Windsor Leadership Trust. 

IVOR WILTENBURG
The utilities and challenges of Western Security Force Assistance

Ivor is an infantry officer in the Dutch army He is also a PhD candidate in the field of military operational science at the Dutch military academy since2018. His PhD research focuses on the use and challenges of Security Force Assistance. He holds a masters’ degree in military history (University of Amsterdam) and in military strategic studies (NLDA).

CAPTAIN (DR) MIKE YOUNG MBE
Competencies of Effective Senior Officers

Mike Young is the Royal Navy’s Hudson Visiting Fellow for 2019/2020.

After a hugely enjoyable global training deployment Mike’s early naval career was spent on attachment with the Royal Marines and at Command Field Gun.  He then started to develop expertise in the leadership of change - introducing Investors in People and Coaching into the Navy as well as creating the RN’s first Leadership Development and Education strategies.  Later Mike was Continuous Improvement Team Leader for the transformation of the Royal Navy before becoming Dean of the Navy’s Engineering School.  After an operational tour in Afghanistan he become Head of Wellbeing for 3 years and latterly Head of Recruiting.  In recognition of his expertise and contribution to leadership in the RN he was awarded an MBE in 2005 and made one of the first ever ‘First Sea Lord’s Fellows’ in 2014.

A graduate of the University of Ulster, where he read Environmental Science, Mike also holds 2 Master’s degrees and a Doctorate in Business Administration.  The first (and only 2-time) winner of Henley’s Keith MacMillan Research Prize he has been the author, and subject, of scores of articles on leadership and change in publications ranging from the British Journal of Management through to the Financial Times.  He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, a Fellow of the Institute of Business Consulting as well as a Certified Management Consultant, Coach, and Supervisor.

ADRIAN GARSIDE
Wildlife conservation as it is being practised now in the context of a violent, ethnically-politicised war in South Sudan.  

A former British army officer, Adrian Garside brings over 25 years of experience in policy and execution, addressing conflicts in Africa, the Balkans and Middle East.  A strategic planning officer at the UN Headquarters, adviser to the African Union mission in Darfur and the UK government's first Stabilisation Adviser in Sudan, he has first-hand experience tackling complex, violent conflicts in a range of settings. He has spent the past 6 years at the interface between politicised violence and wildlife conservation in South Sudan’s ongoing civil war.

DR CHRISTOPHER LILYBLAD
The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Local Reconfigurations of Territory, Authority and Institutions in Global Society

Dr. Christopher Marc Lilyblad is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the constitution of authority, order, and governance by violent-non-state actors in territories subjected to fragility, conflict, and violence. He returns to full-time academic life after spending nearly four years in managerial roles at the European Union Delegation in Cape Verde (2014-16), the Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency – LuxDev (2016-2017), and Luxembourg’s national NGO platform, the Cercle de Coopération (2017-2018). In October 2017, Dr. Lilyblad was elected as Councillor in his native municipality of Betzdorf, Luxembourg, which hosts the headquarters of the world’s largest satellite operator, SES, and other space industry leaders. In 2017, he earned his D.Phil. in International Development from the University of Oxford, where he attended as a Clarendon Scholar. Prior to this, Dr. Lilyblad completed his M.Sc. in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford and his B.A. in International Studies and Political Science at the University of Washington.

JEFFREY H. MICHAELS

Dr Jeffrey H. Michaels is a Senior Lecturer with the Defence Studies Department, King's College London. He has also worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Egmont Institute in Brussels and as a Research Associate in the Department of War Studies at King's.  Earlier experience included working for the US Defense Department and NATO.  His current research is focused on preparation of a fourth edition of Sir Lawrence Freedman's 'The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy'. He is also working on a separate Cold War history project examining the politicization of NATO/Warsaw Pact military balance assessments.

COLONEL GUILONG YAN
Chevening Fellow

Colonel Guilong Yan is an associate professor and Director of Foreign Military Studies Center at the PLA Strategic Support Force Information Engineering University, Luoyang. He holds a DPhil in Foreign Languages and Literature from the PLA Foreign Languages University. His research interests include US foreign policy decision making, interagency coordination, and military net assessment. His publications appear in journals such as China Military Science, Military Art, and World Military Review, etc. His commentaries also appear in the PLA Daily. His monograph The Coordinative Mechanism between the U.S. Departments of State and Defense in the Foreign Policy Process is to be published by the Chinese Social Sciences Press. He is currently a Chevening Fellow at the CCW Center, doing a project on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Hybrid Warfare.

VRFS 2014-15

Group Captain John Alexander (RAF) is spending one term as a Trenchard Fellow at CCW. His research paper is entitled ‘A Return to the “British Way in Warfare”: the Diffusion of Power in the International System and the Implications for British Defence Strategy after Afghanistan’. The intent is to highlight the importance of air power given the return of geopolitics and geography to the international system. The paper will therefore be a counter to the Army ‘war amongst the people’, liberal nation building, and population-centric counter-insurgency narrative.

Lieutenant General Sir David Capewell is a British Royal Marines officer currently serving as Chief of Joint Operations. He has just joined the Programme as a Royal Navy Hudson Fellow.

Commander Joseph Gagliano is the US Navy Hudson Fellow for 2014–15

Rear Admiral (rtd) James Goldrick AO, CSC, RANR was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy until he retired from full-time service in 2012. He commanded HMA Ships Cessnock and Sydney (twice), the multinational maritime interception force in the Persian Gulf and the Australian Defence Force Academy. He led Australia’s Border Protection Command and later commanded the Australian Defence College. He is a Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. A Visiting Fellow of the Sea Power Centre-Australia, an Adjunct Professor of the University of NSW at ADFA and a Professorial Fellow of ANCORS, his research interests include naval and maritime strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific, as well as the response of navies to changing technologies and operational challenges.

Major-General James Hockenhull is spending two terms with the programme as an Army Defence Fellow. Professor John Kelsay is Chair of the Department of Religion at Florida State University. His research is focussed on religious ethics, particularly in relation to the Islamic and Christian traditions. His current work deals with religion and politics and religion and war. Professor Kelsay plans to spend Hilary Term with CCW while he is on Sabbatical from his home institution. 

Lieutenant General (Rtd) Sir John Kiszely KCB MC DL was commissioned into the Scots Guards and served in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Germany, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Bosnia and Iraq. Appointments included command of 1st Armoured Division, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, Deputy Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, and Director General of the Defence Academy. Since retirement from the Army in 2008, he has served as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, National President of the Royal British Legion, and Visiting Professor in War Studies at King`s College London. He is currently conducting research for a book on the British campaign in Norway in 1940.

Professor Keith Krause is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Director of its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), and Programme Director of the Small Arms Survey, an internationally recognized research centre NGO he founded in 2001. Professor Krause’s research interests include concepts of security, the changing character of contemporary armed violence, and multilateral security cooperation. He has published Arms and the State (Cambridge) and edited or co-edited Critical Security Studies (Minnesota), and Culture and Security, and authored many journal articles and book chapters. During his sabbatical in Oxford, he is pursuing research on political violence and the state.

Dr Hyeloung Lee will come to CCW from the Trial Division (Chamber) of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Her research interests include international humanitarian law, international criminal law, the crime of aggression, and mixed types of conflicts involving unrecognized entities. She is coming to Oxford to expand on and prepare for publication her doctoral research on the applicability of the crime of aggression to armed conflicts involving quasistates.

Major Conn MacEvilly has been a Barrister for seventeen years and is areservist with the British Army. He is joining CCW to carry out research into how the reserve component of the Whole Force Concept could be delivered. His research will consider whether the changes to employment law and practice, and to the culture of mobilisation and compulsory military training of reservists, deemed necessary by allies with similar societies are achievable in the UK. It will look at how British society’s relations with and attitude to our reserve forces have changed historically,and how these changes have been reflected (or not) in our laws over time and in how our Reserves have actually been used. [Fellowship awarded but deferred until academic year 2015–16.]

Lukas Milevski joins the Programme from Reading University where he completed his PhD under Colin Gray. He is writing a history of grand strategic thought in practice. It is hoped that the two hundred year overview of grand strategy he proposes will reveal the dynamic relationship between changing (grand) strategic ideas and the changing character of war.

Group Captain Paul O’Neill is a serving Royal Air Force Officer. The end of combat operations in Afghanistan ushers in an era of ‘contingency’, in which the UK’s combat edge is increasingly dependent on the quality of its people, but the implications of this are not well understood. Having been responsible for Personnel Strategy and the Defence School of Personnel Administration, his research interest is in the area of human capability. Viewing the issue through an organizational lens, his work will consider how Defence needs to change to become more agile so that it is able to develop and use its human capability to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Professor Douglas Porch is Distinguished Professor and former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Professor Porch has served as Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and has also lectured at the United States Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.

Professor Porch has published extensively. His most recent book, Counterinsurgency: The origins, Development and Myths of the New War of War, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. At present, he is researching a book on French combatants in World War II.

Captain Joseph Robinson is British Army Defence Fellow. During his two terms in Oxford, he has been researching political philosophy in stabilisation strategy.

Captain Thomas Ross is British Army Defence Fellow looking at the 2011 UK intervention in Libya.

Colonel (Retd) Dr Randall Wakelam is an Assistant Professor of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. As a serving officer he flew helicopters for the Canadian Army, becoming CO of 408 Squadron in 1991. Along the way he held staff appointments in aircraft procurement and language training policy. Since 1993 he has been an educator, first in uniform at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto and now at RMCC. He writes in the fields of air power, leadership,and military education. In 2009 he published The Science of Bombing: Operational Research in RAF Bomber Commandand in 2010 co-edited The Report of the Officer Development Board: Maj-Gen Roger Rowley and the Education of the Canadian Forces . In 2011 he published Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945–54with UBC Press and is currently working on a biography of Air Marshal Wilfred Curtis who was Chief of the Air Staff in the RCAF during that same period. (Michaelmas Term)

Captain Jon White  is the RN Hudson Fellow. Captain White’s research is on maritime security in Sierra Leone.

VRFs 2013-14

Commander Bobby Baker was the U.S. Navy Hudson Fellow for academic year 2013–14. He previously served as the Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 192. His research focused on the European Union’s Naval Force Operation Atlanta that was launched to prevent and combat acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia. He investigated why and how this operation was created and its global impact on international maritime security cooperation.

Lieutenant Ryan Coatalen-Hodgson, RN Hudson Fellow (Trinity Term, 2013) used his term in Oxford to prepare for his deployment to Russia.

Major-General Christopher Elliott was formerly the Director General of Doctrine and Development, British Army and latterly Director of Doctrine and Strategic Analysis for General Dynamics UK Ltd. During his fellowship he wrote High Command (2014). He remains a Research Associate of the Programme.

Squadron Leader Tim Fawdry-Jeffries was one of the Royal Air Force Fellows in 2013–14. His research focused on how the creation of a sufficiently compelling perception of victory can influence, and even take primacy over, the tangible outcomes of conflict. He used the 2nd Lebanon War and the Gaza War as exemplars to propose methods by which a successful narrative of victory can be constructed.

Captain Neil Foot-Tapping is a British Army officer from the 9th/12th  Royal Lancers. His research examined the ability of the UK to exert power following restructuring and transformation, looking particularly at the adaptive force and upstream capacity building. He moved on to the Defence Academy in Shrivenham in 2014 for the Intermediate Command and Staff Course.

Major Mirjam Grandia Mantas is a serving officer in the Netherlands army. She has conducting a comparative analysis of why and how the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have deployed their military forces for the stabilisation of South Afghanistan at the University Leiden and spent a term with CCW as part of her research.

Professor Agustin Guimera is a Spanish naval historian. He spent Hilary Term 2014 in Oxford while working on a book on Jervis/Mazarredo 1797–1799.

Major Metin Gurcan, of the Turkish military and Turkish Staff College, came to Oxford in Hilary Term 2014 while working on a book on COIN efforts in TRMEs (Tribalized Rural Muslim Environments). He is the CCW-TAF link in our institutional relationship and will return to the Programme in 2015–16.

Mitsuko Hayashi was Defence Counsellor (Head of the Defence Team) in the Embassy of Japan in London and now serves in the defence section of the Japanese Government. She spent one term in Oxford during her time in the London Embassy.

Professor Men Hongua is KF Chair Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for International Strategic Studies at the Central Party School, Beijing, China. He spent Michaelmas Term 2013 and Hilary Term 2014 with the Programme while on Sabbatical.

Dr Zhong Jing was one of two Chevening Government-Exchange Research Fellows. She produced a paper on ‘Space Security and Strategic Stability’ during her two terms in Oxford.

Group Captain Richard Mason (Michaelmas 2013 and Hilary Term 2014) is a serving Royal Air Force Officer who has just completed the Ministry of Defence’s Higher Command and Staff Course. His research into the impact of remote warfare on the moral component of Air Fighting Power used Remotely Piloted Air Systems as an exemplar. It focused on the implications of ‘killing from afar’ on the morale and ethos of the crews involved.

Colonel Rob Rider is former Commander of the Military Assistance Group. He used his term with CCW to examine how the British Army could devise more effective, culturally-aware, and collaborative methods of intervention and interaction with indigenous security forces.

Captain Joseph Robinson, Army Defence Fellow (Trinity and Michaelmas 2014 – see left for details)

Captain Thomas Ross, Army Defence Fellow (Trinity and Michaelmas 2014 – see left for details)

Captain Sean Ryan works on open source intelligence issues. His paper looked at the influence of the internet on freely available information, and how traditional intelligence architectures can adapt to a changed calculation of information asymmetry.

Captain James Sides (Michaelmas Term, 2013) is an officer of the Intelligence Corps who conducted research into the transformation of his corps during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly the change of emphasis to human terrain analysis.

Dr Deividas Slekys is a lecturer at the Lithuanian Military Academy. He spent two terms in Oxford as part of his research on military thought and its evolution in Lithuania since 1990 and will be returning to Oxford in 2015 to continue his collaborative research with the Programme.

Air Commodore Andrew Turner spent Hilary Term 2014 in Oxford after returning from service in the White House and Pentagon in Washington DC and as preparation for his next appointment. He researched the relative weight Governments apply between vital national interests and core values when determining whether to commit force and subsequently in the formulation of military strategies. He went on to command 22 Group, responsible for future development in the RAF.

Lt Col Alexandre Vautravers is Professor of International Relations, Webster University Geneva and Head of Military Intelligence (G2), 1st Armored Brigade, Swiss Armed Forces. He also edits the Swiss Military Review. He spent some of his sabbatical with the Programme in 2013–14.

Dr Neil Verrall is a Principal Psychologist with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). He is a senior member of DSTL’s Human Systems Group and his career has focused on the human dimension of military behaviour and performance. As an applied scientist Neil deployed to Iraq (2007) and Afghanistan (2008, 2009, 2011) in order to conduct human sciences research and lead Dstl’s operational analysis capability in deployed headquarters. Neil has also been awarded a NATO Excellence Award for his contribution to various research groups studying the cultural factors of multinational forces and coalitions. Neil’s research for the Changing Character of War programme focussed on Defence and cross-Government strategic communication and influence.

Col (Retd) Dr Randall Wakelam (Hilary, Trinity and Michaelmas Terms 2014 – see left for details)

Captain Jon White, RN Hudson Fellow (Hilary, Trinity and Michaelmas Terms 2014 – see above for details)

Dr Paul Winter is a military historian and author. He came to Oxford while working on a book on Operation ‘Overlord’ to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Dr Li Xiaolu was one of two Chevening Government-Exchange Research Fellows. Her paper looked at Sino-US relations in the coming decade.

Professor Xiao Xi is Professor of International Politics at Jilan University, Changchun City, P.R. China. She was awarded a China State Scholarship to spend two terms in Oxford.