Michael Clarke

PROFESSOR MICHAEL CLARKE is a defense and security analyst and author. He was the Director General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) from 2007 to 2015. Prior to that he was Professor of defense Studies at King’s College London, the founder of its Centre for defense Studies and then its International Policy Institute, and Deputy Vice-Principal responsible for research development at KCL. He has taught international relations and security studies in a number of universities and remains a Visiting Professor at King’s College and also at the University of Exeter, where he is associate director of its Strategy and Security Institute. He is an alumni and Fellow of the University of Aberystwyth, and of the Royal College of defense Studies. He remains a Distinguished Fellow at RUSI. He has been a specialist advisor to a number of Parliamentary Select Committees and served on both the Prime Minister’s National Security Forum and the Chief of defense Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel.

His most recent books include, The Challenge of Defending Britain (Manchester UP, 2019), Tipping Point: Britain, Brexit and Security (with Helen Ramscar) (I.B.Taurus, 2019) and Britain’s Persuaders: Soft Power in a Hard World (with Helen Ramscar) (I.B.Taurus, 2022). He is a frequent contributor in British and international print media and regularly appears as an analyst of contemporary conflicts on BBC TV and radio and on Sky News.