Currently Distinguished Fellow, Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs); Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute. Advising institutions on relations between Europe, US and Asia. 2007- 2022, Director & Chief Executive, Chatham House. 2001-06, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, CSIS, Washington DC; 2004-06, also Director, CSIS Europe Programme and Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership. 2020-22, Co-Chair, World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics. Chair of the Experts Group for the 2014 NATO Summit; Chair of the British Academy’s Steering Committee of Languages for Security Project. Author of publications, including: Global Britain in a Divided World (2022); Britain, the EU and the Sovereignty Myth (2016); and America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership (2010). Commentary and analysis have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, Washington Post, among others. Regular commentator on Bloomberg “Surveillance”, BBC News, and CNN International. Panellist at conferences on geopolitics, Europe and transatlantic relations. Has testified to British parliamentary Committees and US Congressional Committees. Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 2022. BA in Modern Languages, MPhil and DPhil in International Relations, New College, Oxford.
European security has entered a period of intense fragility. Three broad factors are now at play. Taken together, they make it all the more difficult to implement coherent responses.
Since the time of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, countries around the world have followed America and Britain’s economic example – privatizing, de-regulating and opening up their ec...
