Gill Bennett MA OBE is an Associate Fellow, RUSI, formerly Chief Historian of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Senior Editor of the FCO’s official history of postwar foreign policy, Documents on British Policy Overseas, 1995-2005. She was a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2002-03 and formerly Assistant Editor of Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939.

Publications include ‘Declassification and release policies of the UK’s Intelligence Agencies’, in Intelligence and National Security, Spring 2002; A most extraordinary and mysterious business: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924 (FCO, 1999); Nazi Gold I and II (FCO, 1996 and 1997); and The End of the War in Europe 1945 (ed), 1998. Gill Bennett’s biography of Desmond Morton, Churchill’s Intelligence adviser, was published in October 2006 as part of the Cabinet Official History series, entitled, Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence (Routledge, 2006).

She is currently the 2006/7 Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecturer at the Joint Services Command Staff College.