Paul Martin

Paul Martin is Professor of Practice at Coventry University’s London-based Protective Security Lab, a Distinguished Fellow of RUSI and an Honorary Principal Research Fellow of Imperial College London. He is the former head of the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (now National Protective Security Authority) and former Director of Security for the UK Parliament. He is the author of The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World (OUP, 2019) and Insider Risk and Personnel Security: An Introduction (Routledge, 2024).