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.