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 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 Michael Goodman- King’s College, London

Professor Goodman is Head of War Studies, Dean of Research Impact and Professor of ‘Intelligence and International Affairs’ at King’s College, London.He has published widely in the field of intelligence history and scientific intelligence, including Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb (2008); Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence (2009); and Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History (2011); The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (2014) and Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee (2014).He has also contributed articles to many academic journals.

Professor Sir David Omand, GCB

After a distinguished government career in defence, security and intelligence, David Omand is now one of the leading figures in shaping public debate on national security. He was the first appointee, in 2002, to the re-vamped post of UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible for the UK’s national counter-terrorism strategy and ‘homeland security’. He spent much of his earlier career in the Ministry of Defence, including as Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Deputy Secretary for Policy, Under Secretary in charge of the defence programme, and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. He also served for three years in Brussels as Defence Counsellor to NATO and for seven years on the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee. Sir David was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and is currently Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department, King’s College, London.

Lord Wilson of Dinton, GCB

Richard Wilson entered the Civil Service as an assistant principal in the Board of Trade in 1966. He subsequently served in a number of departments including 12 years in the Department of Energy where his responsibilities included nuclear power policy, the privatisation of Britoil, personnel and finance. He headed the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet office under Mrs Thatcher from 1987-90 and after two years in the Treasury was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment in 1992. He became Permanent Under Secretary of the Home Office in 1994 and Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service from January 1998 until September 2002. He was Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 2002-12. He remains actively interested in the contribution of academic research to policy making.

Professor Michael Goodman

Professor Michael S. Goodman is Head of War Studies, Dean of Research Impact and Professor of ‘Intelligence and International Affairs’ at King’s College, London and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School.  He has published widely in the field of intelligence history and scientific intelligence, including Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb (2008); Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence (2009); and Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History (2011); The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (2014) and Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee (2014). He has also contributed articles to many academic journals.

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

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 focuses on Cold War intelligence history as well as contemporary issues related to intelligence liaison, counterterrorism intelligence, and intelligence analysis. Dr Richterova has published in International Affairs, The International History Reviewand in West European Politics. She is currently completing her monograph which explores communist Czechoslovakia’s relationship with violent Middle Eastern non-state actors – including the PLO and Carlos the Jackal (Georgetown University Press). She is series editor for ‘Intelligence, Surveillance, and Secret Warfare’ for Edinburgh University Press.

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

Dr. Tom Maguire

Dr Thomas Maguire is an Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security in the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, and Visiting Fellow with the King’s Intelligence and Security Group in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL). Tom’s research streams are two-fold. Firstly, he is examining interactions between intelligence and propaganda in international politics, especially through covert action as a foreign policy tool. This forms the basis for a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, The intelligence-propaganda nexus: British and American covert action in Cold War Southeast Asia (2022). Secondly, he is exploring the politics and impacts of international security cooperation, in particular security assistance relationships between states in Africa and Asia and the United Kingdom and their post-colonial legacies during the Cold War and so-called Global War on Terror.

Research interests/ expertise: Intelligence, propaganda and covert action in foreign policy and domestic security, security sector reform and assistance, international security cooperation, the Cold War and decolonisation, Counter-insurgency and violent extremism.

Annie Zonneveld

Annie is currently pursuing a PhD in Education and Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She has previously completed a MSc in Education and Social Change at the University of Miami and an MPhil in Education and Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Annie taught secondary school for four years in low-income, urban schools in the United States and two years in primary and secondary schools in South Korea, before once again becoming a full-time student at Cambridge. Annie joined the ISI team as the Operations Manager in 2018.

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 Dialogue, International 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’.

Richard Baffa

Richard Baffa is the Deputy Director/Director of Analysis at Circinus-UAE, a defense company providing open source analysis in the UAE to multiple organizations. Prior to this, Mr. Baffa was a Senior International/Defense Policy Researcher at RAND focusing on national security, intelligence, military issues, the Middle East, Russia/Eurasia, and Europe/NATO. He came to RAND from the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served in a number of senior analytic and management positions over a 34-year career. His most recent position was as the Chief Analyst at the Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center. Previously, he served as the Senior Analyst at the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and as DIA’s senior Iran expert. He also served as the Senior Intelligence Officer for DIA’s Middle East/North Africa Office and Director of the Iraq Office. Following seven years active duty as a Naval Intelligence Officer, Mr. Baffa joined the Navy Reserves and retired at the rank of CAPTAIN in December 2009 with more than 26 years of service. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Villanova University and a Master of International Public Policy degree from Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is a Distinguished Graduate of the National War College where he received an M.S. in National Security Strategy. In May 2015, he completed a seven-month Fellowship at Cambridge University where he authored two papers examining developments in Iran during the World War I time frame.Mr. Baffa was selected as a Defense Intelligence Senior Level Executive in 2008 and received the Presidential Award for his service at EUCOM in 2015.