PS21 Staff

Peter Apps – Executive Director

Peter currently works as a Global Defense Correspondent at Reuters and joined on as Executive Director full-time from January 2015. He is a veteran reporter paralyzed from the shoulders down covering the Sri Lanka war in 2006.

Steph Baker – Chief of Staff

Steph graduated from King’s College London with a MA in War Studies, and is currently working in the Disarmament team of the UK Mission to Geneva. Her main interests include Middle East conflict and work across the humanitarian sector.

 

Lauren Greatz
Deputy Chief of Staff

Lauren completed her MA in international relations, political violence and counter terrorism. Her main interests include international politics and human rights.

 

Julia Thommessen
Deputy Chief of Staff

Julia is currently studying international relations at King’s College London. Her research interests include far-right extremism and radicalisation.

Sebastian Beyenburg
Intern

Sebastian is currently studying international relations at King’s College London and has a prominent interest in international law, human rights and grand strategy.

Amy Jimenez
Intern

Amy is currently completing her MSc in International Social and Public Policy at London School of Economics and is particularly interested in education, technology and social inequality.

 

Thomas Fiala-Price
Intern

Thomas graduated with his MSc in Conflict Studies and is particularly interested in politics, people, and the evolution of society.

 

Nikhita Swarnkar
Intern

Nikhita is currently studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at King’s College London, her research interests include contemporary British politics and global economic trends.

 

Rebecca Visser
Intern

Rebecca is a student of History and International Relations at King’s College London with a particular interest in American domestic politics and US-China relations.

 

Sakshi Rai
Intern

Sakshi is a LLM Candidate at the London School of Economics, specialising in Public International Law and particularly interested in transnational environmental law.

 

Florence Magalon
Intern

Florence is currently completing her MA in Geopolitics, her interests include cybersecurity and the impact of technology on territories, space, and people.

 

Hannah Bogaert
Intern

Hannah is currently studying International Relations at King’s College London, with a particular interest in the relationship between ethics, foreign policy, and human rights.

 

Governing Board

 

Tom Beazley – Company Secretary

Former British Army officer and now consultant for Deloitte

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Brindisi

Political consultant and Former London Executive Director of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy

 

 

 

Jonn Elledge

Editor, CityMetric; Journalist, New Statesman

 

 

 

Katherine Maher

Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation

 

 

 

 

Sidney Olinyk

Former Chief of Staff, Mideast Policy, Office of the US Secretary of Defense

 

 

 

 

Metsa Rahimi

Regional Head of Intelligence within Corporate Security & Business Continuity, Deutsche Bank

 

 

 

Ari Ratner

Founder and CEO of strategic communications firm Inside Revolution; Former Political Appointee, US Department of State

 

 

 

Monique Villa (Strategic Advisor to the Board)

CEO Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

 

 

 

International Advisory Group

 

 

Commodore Philip Thicknesse, RN

Former head of Futures UK Defence Concepts and Doctrines Centre

 

 

 

 

Gary Barnabo

President, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP)

 

 

 

Lt Gen Sir Graeme Lamb

Former Director, UK Special Forces and Commander, Field Army

 

 

 

 

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

UAE-based blogger and columnist

 

 

 

 

David Sanderson

Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim

 

 

 

Steve Killelea

Founder and Chief Executive, Institute for Economics and Peace

 

 

 

 

Nikolas Gvosdev

Professor of National Security studies, US Naval War College

 

 

 

 

John Bassett

Former GCHQ Official, now fellow at Oxford University

 

 

 

Richard Barrett

Former head UN al-Qaeda/Taliban monitoring team, current Senior Vice President of The Soufan Group

 

 

 

 

Jack A. Goldstone

Professor of International relations, George Mason University

 

 

 

 

Joshua Marcuse

Founder, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy

 

 

 

 

Sir Michael Leigh

Former Director for Enlargement, European Union, previously Deputy Director External Relations, now senior advisor to German Marshall Fund.

 

 

Richard Burge

Chief Executive, Wilton Park

 

 

 

Global Fellows

 

Brittany Damora

Senior Operations Manager, Kidnap & Ransom, Aegis Response.

 

 

 

Caitlin Vito

Coordinator, Office of the Director of Studies at the International Institute
for Strategic Studies (IISS); Formerly at NATO, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division 

 

 

 

 

Dalia Abd El Hameed

Gender and Sexuality Officer, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

 

 

 

 

Erik Lin-Greenberg

Former US Air Force Officer, PhD candidate Columbia University

 

 

 

 

Felicity Fitzgerald

Pediatrician, currently working on Ebola in West Africa

 

 

 

 

Frederic Ischebeck-Baum

Former UNODC Counter-Piracy Advisor,
Fellow of the King’s College London Sir Michael Howard Centre,
Fellow of the Cambridge Security Initiative

 

 

 

 

Margarita Noriega

Social media specialist, New York

 

 

 

 

 Martina Fuchs

TV Business Reporter, CCTV News (China Central Television)

 

 

 

 

Christian Le-Miere

Security Advisor, Government of the United Arab Emirates. Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies

 

 

 

 

Negar Razavi

Anthropologist, PhD candidate University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Julia Clark

Senior Vice President, Ipsos (US), former Head of Political Research, Ipsos MORI (UK)

 

 

 

 

Anna Bowden

Senior Associate, Social Outcomes, Australia

 

 

 

 

David Murrin

Author, Breaking the Code of History and chairman, Spartent Global Solutions

 

 

 

Kate Thomas

Editor of Ebola Deeply, experienced Africa correspondent

 

 

 

 

Steve Pritchard

United Nations Programme Manager, Landmine Clearance and Weapons Management

 

 

 

 

John Drake

Head of Global Intake, Mideast Analyst, AKE Group

 

 

 

 

Natalie Chwalisz

Africa peace and conflict consultant

 

 

 

 

Ali Wyne

Adjunct, RAND Corporation and contributing analyst, Wikistrat

 

 

 

 

Peter Liebert

Special Assistant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy

 

 

 

 

Amjad Saleem

Political Analyst, former humanitarian worker (Muslim Aid); consultant on peace building

 

 

 

 

Rasha Elass

Former Reuters, NPR reporter, Damascus

 

 

 

 

Hayat Alvi

Professor, Middle East studies, US Naval War College

 

 

 

 

Milena Rodban

Independent Geopolitical risk consultant

 

 

 

 

Gwenn Laine

Former French Navy officer turned documentary filmmaker

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Bunce

Researcher at Human Rights Consortium and Campaigner

 

 

 

 

Linda Tirado

Activist, author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Abrahamson

Consultant and writer

 

 

 

 

Alia Brahimi

Visiting Research Fellow at University of Oxford

 

 

 

 

Tom Bruxner

Brittish Army officer, Defense Concepts and Doctrine Center

 

 

 

 

Kathryn Floyd

Professor of international relations, College of William & Mary

 

 

 

 

Srdja Popovic

Serb activist, specialist in nonviolent revolutions

 

 

 

 

Donna Bryson

Former Associated Press Africa Correspondent, US-based writer

 

 

 

 

Tim Hardy

Technical writer, commentator and activist with a special interest in the political and cultural consequences of new technology. 

 

 

 

 

Lara Fatah

Former journalist; co-founder, Zanraw Consulting, Kurdistan

 

 

 

 

Frank Spring

Independent consultant for innovation, politics and security issues

 

 

 

 

Joseph Walker-Cousins

Former advisor to the UK’s Special Envoy & Head of the British Embassy Office in Benghazi. Director, Middle East Business Development KBR UK Ltd.

 

 

 

Alexey Dolinskiy

International relations and public policy scholar and consultant and partner at Capstone Connections

 

 

 

Darya Pilram

Field anthropologist/social scientist with US Military. Current lecturer at University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies, Fort Leavenworth

 

 

 

Marina Prentoulis

London spokesperson for Greek ruling party, Syriza. Senior Lecturer at University of East Anglia

 

 

 

Robert Colvile

News Director at Buzzfeed UK

 

 

 

Sandy Schumann

Wiener-Anspach Post-doctoral Research Fellow in social psychology at the University of Oxford

 

 

 

Dr.Vasily Kashin

Senior Researcher, CAST.  Former deputy chief, RIA Novosti, Beijing.

 

 

 

 

 

Alison Wakefield

Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth and Vice Chairman, Security Institute

 

 

 

Nancy Okail

Executive Director, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

 

 

 

 

Patrick Bury

Former Captain in the British Army Royal Irish Regiment. Currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute

 

 

 

Bernie de Haldevang

Head of FINPRO International, Aspen Insurance

 

 

 

 

Chris Mackmurdo

Director, Contest Global; former Head of Counter-Terrorism and National Security Analysis, Foreign Office

 

 

 

Frances Hudson

Global Thematic Strategist, Standard Life Investments

 

 

 

 

Nigel Inkster

Former Deputy Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6); Head of transnational threats and political risk, International Institute for Strategic Studies

 

 

 

 

Contributors

Anne-Katrin Lother, Events Organiser

 

 

 

 

 

Adam Maisel – Contributor, PS21 Defence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will DuVal – Contributor, PS21 Defence

 

 

 

 

Linda Schlegal – Contributor, PS21 Terrorism