Nick Childs

Nick Childs has been the naval and maritime specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies since 2015. For over thirty years prior to that he worked for the BBC, much of that time as a World Affairs Correspondent, covering a range of international, diplomatic, and security issues from London and on assignments around the world. He was the BBC's "inaugural" Pentagon Correspondent from 2002 to 2005. He has accumulated much experience of working with and reporting on the armed forces of various countries.