Professor Michael Clarke

Position: Director

Michael Clarke is the Director of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Until July 2007 he was the Deputy Vice-Principal and Director of Research Development at King’s College London, where he remains a Visiting Professor of Defence Studies. He was the founding Director of the International Policy Institute at King’s College London from 2001-2005 and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at KCL in 2004-05. He was, from 1990 to 2001, the founding Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s. He was appointed as Professor of Defence Studies in 1995.

He has previously taught international politics at the Universities of Aberystwyth, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne, and also at the University of New Brunswick, and the Open University. He lectures regularly at many universities in the UK, as well as at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, at the Royal College of Defence Studies, at the NATO School in Oberammagau and at the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands. He has been a Guest Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He has been senior Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee since 1997, having served previously with the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee 1995-7, and on the High Level Group of Experts to advise Commissioner Van den Broek at the European Commission 1996-7. In 2004 he was appointed the UK member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, and was also elected to the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva. In 2007 he was appointed as one of the Security Commissioners at the Institute for Public Policy Research, under the chairmanship of Lords Ashdown and Robertson.

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