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CSi Trustees

Sir Richard Dearlove (Chair)

 

Richard Dearlove is the former Master of Pembroke College Cambridge. He served as Chief (known as ‘C’) of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from August 1999 until his retirement in July 2004. For the preceding five years he was Director of Operations and, from 1998, Assistant Chief. As Director of Finance, Administration and Personnel he also oversaw the move of SIS into its Headquarter Building at Vauxhall Cross in 1994. He is a career intelligence officer of thirty-eight years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington as well as in a number of key London-based posts.

Dr Alan Dawson

 

Between 2004 and 2014, Alan Dawson was Director of International Programmes at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in which role he created many of the programmes that have secured the College’s international reputation for academic enterprise, innovation, and quality.

Drawing students from leading universities worldwide, these programmes include the highly sought-after International Security and Intelligence programme which is taught and organised by many of those who are now associated with the CSi.

Dr Peter Martland

From a background in business history, Dr Martland specialises in intelligence and security studies. He is the author of six books and has contributed to many more, latterly in the field of intelligence and security history. He was part of Professor Andrew’s research team which produced the authorised history of MI5 Defence of the Realm (2009). He edits the Boydell and Brewer intelligence and security series. He has supervised generations of Cambridge undergraduate and graduate students and taught history, intelligence and security-related courses at Pembroke College, International Programmes Department. He is a co-sponsor of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.

Professor Angus Knowles-Cutler

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.

 

ISI Faculty

Professor Michael Goodman

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.

 

Research interests/ expertise: Intelligence Studies, nuclear weapons history, and Cold War history.

 

Professor David Gioe

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 Daniela Richterova

Dr Daniela Richterova is Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research and teaching focus on Cold War intelligence history as well as contemporary issues related to intelligence liaison, covert action, counterterrorism, and intelligence analysis. Dr Richterova has published in International AffairsThe International History Review, and West European Politics. Her research has been featured in Foreign PolicyThe GuardianBBCThe Times, and in a number of documentaries. Her monograph Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries – which explores communist Czechoslovakia’s relationship with violent Middle Eastern non-state actors, including the PLO and Carlos the Jackal – will be published by Georgetown University Press later this year. Dr Richterova is director of the MA in Intelligence and International Security and co-director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence.

Research interests/ expertise: Intelligence and Security Studies, Cold War, counterterrorism, intelligence liaison, covert action, the Soviet Union/Central and Eastern Europe, intelligence analysis and policymaking.

Dr Renad Mansour 

Dr Renad Mansour is a senior research fellow and project director of the Iraq initiative at Chatham House. His research explores the political economy of conflict, development, and state-building in Iraq and the Middle East. He is also a senior research fellow at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Mansour was previously a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he taught the international relations of the Middle East. He has also worked at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies in Beirut, and the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 2015. He is a co-author of “Once Upon a Time in Iraq” published by BBC Books/Penguin.

Research interests/ expertise: Comparative politics and international relations in the Middle East, Iraq, international relations of the Middle East, the state and state-building in the Middle East, the politics of the Kurds in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

 

Dr Tom Maguire

Dr Thomas Maguire is an Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, and Visiting Fellow with the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL). Tom’s research streams are two-fold. Firstly, he is interested in interactions between intelligence and influence in international politics, especially examining covert influence and intelligence disclosures as policy tools. This is the focus of a Dutch Government-funded research project, ‘Sharing Secrets’, for which Tom is the Principal Investigator. This examines state decision-making behind disclosing intelligence to influence external audiences. Secondly, Tom is interested in the politics and impacts of international security cooperation, in particular exploring post-colonial security relationships between states in Africa and Asia and the United Kingdom.
Research interests/ expertise: Intelligence, propaganda and covert influence in foreign policy and domestic security; foreign interference / malign influence operations; international security cooperation (counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence); intelligence in the Cold War and decolonisation.

Dr Nicola Leveringhaus

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.

ISI Operations Team

CSi has a team of dedicated professionals working on administrative and technical matters related to both CSi and ISI. While the ISI Programme is in residence the Ops Team is strengthened by the addition of 3 or 4 Cambridge students or recent graduates who are able to ‘fast track’ our ISI participants towards the best that Cambridge has to offer while helping with organisation and practicalities. For more information, contact us at 
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CSi Contributing Authors

Dr Dina Rezk

Dr Dina Rezk is an Associate Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History and Politics at the University of Reading, UK. Her research lies at the intersection of security, authority, and popular culture in Middle East studies.

She has been funded as a ‘Rising Star’ by the British Academy (2017-2019) and was selected by the AHRC/BBC to be a ‘New Generation Thinker’ in 2019.

She has published in Security DialogueInternational History Review and Intelligence and National Security. Her most recent book is The Arab World and Western Intelligence: Analysing the Middle East 1958-1981 (2017).

She was a Co-Investigator for the AHRC-funded project, ‘Politics and Popular Culture: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution and its Aftermath’ from 2016-2019 and is currently completing a Leverhulme funded project on presidential masculinity titled: ‘Virtue, Violence and Virility: Making Egypt’s Presidents’.

Dr Tracey German

Dr Tracey German is a Reader in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. Her research focuses on Russian foreign and security policies, particularly Russia’s use of force in the post-Soviet space, conflict and security in the Caucasus and Caspian regions, and the impact of NATO/EU enlargement on Russia’s relations with its neighbours. She speaks Russian and has travelled extensively across the post-Soviet area. She is currently writing a book that explores Russian views of the changing character of conflict and what lessons Russia has drawn from Western military activity over the past two decades.

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