Ashlee Godwin
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS; Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Associated with the Centre for Finance and Security and the Proliferation and Nuclear Policy research group
Biography
Ashlee Godwin is Head of the International Affairs and National Security Hub at the House of Commons. In this politically impartial role as head of policy, she advises senior MPs and Select Committees in scrutinising UK foreign policy and national security, focusing on anticipating and responding to the fundamental strategic questions facing the UK. In 2020, she was seconded into No. 10, where she was the penholder for the 2021 Integrated Review of Defence, Security, Development and Foreign Policy. In 2024, she was again seconded into Government, working as the lead drafter of the 2025 Strategic Defence Review.
Ashlee has previously worked at the UK defence think tank RUSI, as Deputy Editor of its flagship policy journal. She is a Fulbright Scholar in US national security policy-making, a Millennium Fellow with the Washington-based Atlantic Council, and in 2019 she participated in the State Department-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program on cyber security. She also previously participated in the Great Britain-China Centre’s Future Leaders Programme.