Professor Michael S. Goodman is Professor of ‘Intelligence and International Affairs’ and the Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence.  He is a former Head of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.  He is currently Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Intelligence School and at Sciences Po in Paris, and is a Senior Fellow at RAND. He has published widely in the field of intelligence history, including The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis (Routledge, 2015), which was chosen as one of The Spectator’s books of the year.  He is series editor for ‘Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare’ for Edinburgh University Press; and is a member of the editorial boards for five journals. He has spent many years on secondment to the Cabinet Office, where he has been the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee: Volume II will be published in 2025. He is a current British army reservist.

Angus is Vice Chairman of Deloitte and London office managing partner. He leads the firm’s work on the impact of technology in the workplace and is an adviser to the UK government and major businesses on the subject.

He has a particular interest in how national governments are reacting to the major opportunities and significant risks presented and how automation might be fuelling both nationalism and globalisation at the same time. He is also chairman of Deloitte’s China Services Group, developing business and government links in China. Angus read history at Cambridge University where he specialised in secret intelligence.

Professor David V. Gioe is a British Academy Global Professor and Visiting Professor of Intelligence and International Security in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He was formerly History Fellow for the Army Cyber Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Associate Professor of History. David is also Director of Studies for the Cambridge Security Initiative and co-convener of its International Security and Intelligence program. David has been a national security practitioner for 23 years. He is a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer and remains a senior officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He has published peer-reviewed scholarship and commentary on intelligence and national security topics in a wide variety of outlets. For more information, visit www.davidvgioe.com.

Research interests/ expertise: Digital information operations, intelligence and international security studies, history of Anglo-American intelligence and security services, and strategic studies.

Dr Leveringhaus specialises in the International Relations of Asia, with a focus on China and the security of that region, especially as it relates to nuclear weapons. In September 2016, she joined the Department of War Studies at the University of Sheffield, where she was a Lecturer in International Politics. Dr Leveringhaus was previously a Junior Research Fellow (2012), a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-15), and Stipendiary Lecturer in International Relations (2014-15) at the University of Oxford. Nicola completed her DPhil at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Rosemary Foot. Her thesis examined China’s engagement with the global nuclear order since 1949. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. Prior to starting her DPhil, Dr Leveringhaus was a research fellow at the then International Policy Institute based in King’s College London, conducting research for Professor Wyn Bowen on nuclear proliferation in Northeast Asia. During this time, she also researched Jihadist terrorism with Professor Javier Jordan of the University of Granada in Spain.

Research interests/ expertise: International Relations of Asia, East Asian Security, Nuclear weapons in China and Asia (including historical aspects), Conceptions of nuclear ordering (regional and global) as well as responsibility. Nicola’s current research falls under three areas: early Chinese nuclear weapons history; contemporary China-India nuclear weapons relations; and conceptions of responsibility across regional and global forms of nuclear order.

Dr. Louise Marie Hurel is a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI’s Cyber and Tech team, where her work focuses on responsible cyber behaviour, cyber diplomacy and non-governmental actors’ engagement in cyber security. Prior to joining RUSI, she led Igarapé Institute’s Digital Security Program, coordinating efforts to connect national, regional and international cyber policy discussions and worked as a consultant for the United Nations on cyber and data security. She is a Senior Research Associate at Virtual Routes and an advisory board member of the Global Forum of Cyber Expertise (GFCE), Carnegie Endowment’s Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (PCIO) and the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR). In 2024, Louise was appointed as civil society expert in Brazil’s inaugural National Cyber Committee and, in 2022, she founded the Latin American Cybersecurity Research Network (LA/CS Net). She holds a PhD on Data, Networks and Society and a MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science.