Guest speakers and events

Global Security Master Class Seminar Series

The programme also includes the Global Security Master Class Series where high profile professionals and academics working in the field of security speak directly, yet informally, with students in a small scale setting. 

Recent speakers (2017-18) included David Muir (former Director of Political Strategy to Gordon Brown), Elizabeth M. Allen (former Special Assistant to President Obama and Deputy White House Communications Director), Wally Adeyemo (former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council under the Obama administration), Hannah Bryce (Assistant Head of the International Security Department, The Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House, and Co-editor of the Journal of Cyber Policy), Romain Malejacq (Assistant Professor in International Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), Kristen Harkness (Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews), Ciaran O'Toole (Fiji Programme Director at Conciliation Resources), Afrim Hoti and Anton Vukpalaj (Professors at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo).