Intelligent Defence – Maximising Smart Power and Public Value

Lieutenant General Jack Deverell was born in April 1945 in Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward’s School, Bath and entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in January 1964. He was commissioned into the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry in December 1965. As a junior officer he served in Aden, Norway, Northern Ireland and the School of Infantry, Warminster. After further tours in Germany, Northern Ireland and Belize, he was posted to Division II of the Army Staff Course in October 1975. He attended the Royal Naval Staff College at Greenwich between January and August 1977. From the Royal Naval Staff College he was posted as Brigade Major of the 3 Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland. After commanding a Company of the 1 Battalion The Light Infantry he was posted to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as a Company commander and then commanded 3 Battalion The Light Infantry from 1984 to 1986 in Tidworth and Omagh, Co Tyrone. In December 1986, he was appointed Directing Staff (Infantry 2) at the Royal Military College of Science and attended the first Higher Command and Staff Course from January to March 1998 at the Staff College, Camberley. In April 1988 he assumed the appointment of Military Director Studies Weapons and Vehicles Division, Royal Military College of Science. Between December 1988 and December 1990, he commanded 1 Infantry Brigade/United Kingdom Mobile Force. During 1991 he attended the National Defence College in New Delhi, India after which he became the Director of Army Recruiting and on promotion to Major General assumed the appointment of Director Army Manning and Recruiting on April 16 1993. In July 1995 he assumed the appointment of Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He also became Colonel of the Light Infantry in October 1996. He took up the appointment of Deputy Commander in Chief/Inspector General Territorial Army as a Lieutenant General on October 27, 1997. He assumed the appointment of Deputy Commander Operations (DCOMOPS) of the NATO SFOR in Bosnia and Hercegovina in September 1998.

Tobias Ellwood was appointed Minister for Defence People and Veterans at the Ministry of Defence on 14 June 2017. Tobias served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from July 2014 to June 2017. He was elected Conservative MP for Bournemouth East in May 2005. Tobias was educated in Bonn and Vienna when his parents were overseas as members of the United Nations. He returned to attend Loughborough University and subsequently completed an MBA at City University Business School. He also completed the senior executive course in National and International Studies at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Tobias was in the Royal Green Jackets from 1991 to 1996, and served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Kuwait, Germany, Gibraltar and Bosnia. He left the Army at the rank of Captain and is a current Army Reservist. Tobias was a senior business development manager with the London Stock Exchange for two years, and then with Allen and Overy in a senior role. Tobias is married to Hannah, and he has two young sons. He is a keen sportsman, a qualified pilot and an Eagle Scout.

Ed joined BAE Systems Applied Intelligence in 2009. During his time in the company he has delivered projects for SIA and MoD customers, increasingly into inter-department programmes. Ed helped create the company’s cyber security business in 2012, including developing new markets with Government, and worked to develop BAE Systems’ cyber defence and product security approaches. He was given the responsibility for reforming and leading the Applied Intelligence Defence business in 2014. Prior to BAE Systems, Ed served in the British Army for 12 years. Ed holds a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering which he used fleetingly for a year after graduating whilst working on the North Sea oil rigs for Dowell Schlumberger. Ed is married with two children, lives in Herefordshire and enjoys taking advantage of all that a rural county offers.

Lieutenant General Hockenhull commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1986 after reading Politics at the University of York on a University Cadetship. His subsequent education includes a MA from Cranfield University and as a Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. Early postings were as an infantry platoon commander in Northern Ireland and intelligence appointments in the UK, Cyprus and Berlin. Between 1991 and 2003 he served on operations for seven years, spanning three tours, as Detachment, Company Commander and Commanding Officer in Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland). Staff appointments include a tour in the Ministry of Defence in Army Resources and Plans, as the British Exchange Instructor at the United States Command and General Staff College, and Deputy Director Force Development in MOD. Following a tour as Chief Campaign Plans in Headquarters Multi-National Force Iraq (HQ MNF-I), where he wrote the 2006 Campaign Plan and Campaign Assessment, he was Chief Plans at HQ ARRC and subsequently deployed to Afghanistan. Promoting to Brigadier in early 2009 he assumed the appointment of Director ISTAR (now Head Information Superiority) at Army Headquarters and in September 2011 he returned to the Ministry of Defence as Head Military Strategic Planning. In June 2013 he was promoted to Major General and deployed to Kabul as Director of the Ministry of Defence Advisory Group before taking up post as Commander Cyber and ISR in March 2015. In December 2018 Lieutenant General Hockenhull assumed the appointment of Chief of Defence Intelligence. Honours and awards include the OBE, MBE, QCVS, US Bronze Star and US Legion of Merit.

Steven Kay QC is Head of Chambers at 9 Bedford Row and a leading international and UK criminal lawyer. He has a global reputation and has been in many of the landmark trials at the international courts and tribunals in The Hague that have established modern international criminal law. He has represented Heads of State, leading Military figures and Civilians. In the case of President Kenyatta at the ICC, he produced a result that changed the shape of African politics. Steven’s international practice includes advising Governments and organisations upon international legal issues, many of them with a political aspect. Steven is a Recorder of the Crown Court in England; Co-Chair of the ABA International Criminal Justice Standards Task Force; Former Co-Chair of the IBA War Crimes Committee; and Founder of the European Criminal Bar Association.

Senior Economics Commentator for the Observer who was previously with the Financial Times, Daily Mail and News Chronicle. He also worked in the Economics Intelligence Department at the Bank of England and is now a visiting Professor of Economic History at the Strand Group, King’s College, London. Author of books including Mrs Thatcher’s Economics Experiment, The Spectre of Capitalism and Saving the World?, Gordon Brown reconsidered (2012) and Mr Lawson’s Gamble and Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment. Since 1998 a governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

AM Knighton joined the RAF in 1988 as a University Cadet and studied at Clare College Cambridge graduating in 1991. He spent his early career working as an engineer officer on Nimrod and Tornado F3 aircraft and several tours on the Harrier force including being Senior Engineer Officer on 20 Sqn – the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit – at RAF Wittering. After 2 years in this role, including a short stint as Senior Engineer Officer on 1 Squadron in Italy during the Kosovo campaign, he was posted to the Tornado Integrated Project Team as the fleet manager for all marks of Tornado. He attended Advanced Command and Staff Course in 2003/4 before returning to the Harrier Force, this time as head of the team charged with transforming the way the Harrier was supported by industry. After 18 months in post he was selected to be the Military Assistant to Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Equipment Capability) in MOD. He was promoted to Group Captain in mid-2007 when he became Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Strategy and Plans at Air Command at RAF High Wycombe. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2009, after which he took up his appointment as the RAF’s Logistics Force Commander and Station Commander at RAF Wittering. In 2011 he was promoted to Air Commodore and became Head of Finance and Military Capability (Air) in the MOD before setting up and leading the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Programme in 2014. In January 2015 he was promoted to Air Vice-Marshal and appointed as the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff. In this role he oversaw the development of the RAF’s strategy and the planning for the RAF’s Centenary celebrations. He became Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Capability and Force Design) in 2017. He held this role for a little under 2 years before he was promoted to Air Marshal and appointed to his current role as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Capability). Air Marshal Knighton is married to Caitlin, who is a partner in a large law firm in Cambridge; they have 2 teenage daughters. He is President of Combined Services and RAF Powerlifting and President of RAF Hockey and the RAF Winter Sports Federation. Away from work he maintains his pilot’s licence, is a keen skier, a below-average sportsman, and would like to do more sailing!

The Honorable Franklin D. Kramer is a Distinguished Fellow and on the board of the Atlantic Council. Mr Kramer has been a senior political appointee in two administrations, including as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs where he was in charge of the formulation and implementation of international defense and political-military policy, with worldwide responsibilities including NATO, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the non-profit world, Mr. Kramer previously has been a Senior Fellow at CNA; chairman of the board of the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC; a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University; and an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Mr. Kramer has written extensively, including recently and as co-author: on cyber, “Cyber and Deterrence: The Military-Civil Nexus in High-End Conflict,” “Cyber, Extended Deterrence, and NATO,” and “Raising the Drawbridge with an ‘International Cyber Stability Board’”; on hybrid, “Meeting the Russian Hybrid Challenge”; on NATO, “Meeting the Russian Conventional Challenge,” “Effective Defense of the Baltics,” and “NATO’s New Strategy”; and on innovation, “Innovation, Leadership and National Security.”

Edward Lucas is a writer and consultant specialising in European and transatlantic security. His expertise also includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, information warfare and Russian foreign and security policy. Formerly a senior editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost newsweekly, he is now a senior vice-president at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He writes a weekly column in the London Times. In 2008 he wrote The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, followed in 2011 by Deception, an investigative account of east-west espionage. His latest print book is Cyberphobia. He has also written two e-books on espionage: The Snowden Operation and Spycraft Rebooted. He has contributed to books on religion, on media ethics and on the significance of Andrei Sakharov’s legacy. An experienced broadcaster, public speaker, moderator and panellist, Edward Lucas has given public lectures at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and other leading universities. He is a regular contributor to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to NPR, CNN and Sky News. For many years a foreign correspondent, he was based in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Moscow and the Baltic states. He now lives in London. He concluded his time at The Economist as the editor responsible for the daily news app Espresso. He also wrote obituaries. A weekly syndicated column has appeared in English and other languages since 2005. In 1992 he co-founded an English-language weekly in Tallinn, Estonia: the Baltic Independent. His undergraduate degree is from the London School of Economics and he speaks five languages — German, Russian, Polish, Czech and Lithuanian. He is married to the writer Cristina Odone and has three children. His father is the Oxford philosopher JR Lucas.

Brought up in Durham City, having been educated at St Leonards Comprehensive School, Mitchell was commissioned from Sandhurst into the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) in 1984. Reading Electronic Systems, he graduated from the Royal Military College of Science with a first-class honours degree returning to complete a Guided Weapons Master of Science nearly ten years later. In 35 years in the Army, technical leadership of troops and helping educate future leaders has been the central pillars of his career. Mitchell has been privileged, and challenged, to lead soldiers – from a platoon of 30 to a brigade of 3000 – keeping military equipment, from helicopters to battle tanks, fit and in the hands of fighting troops from Northern Ireland to Kosovo, Iraq to Afghanistan, Rwanda to Oman. For 10 years he has been a student on, or a Directing Staff of, the Defence’s senior professional military education courses; teaching the art and science of higher command and strategy making at the UK’s Defence Academy. This included a short period as the Head of Defence’s Technology School before becoming the Director of Defence’s ‘think-tank’, helping consider how technology will change future battlefields. His greatest challenge remains being a good father to two amazing and patient children; and as Chairman of Army Football, encouraging participation and the use of football as a global, social tool for good. His leadership mantra is there are “no bad units, only bad leaders”.

MP for Bridgend since 2005, Madeleine sat on the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee from 2005 to 2007. Then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Energy and Climate Change Departments between 2007 and 2010. Madeleine joined the Defence Select Committee in 2009 and is Chair of the Arctic Sub-Committee. She was elected to the UK Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2010 and as its President in November 2018. Madeleine is also Chairs the Labour Backbench Defence Group and APPGs on MND and Parkinson’s.

Sir David Omand GCB is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and at PSIA Sciences Po in Paris. His government service included UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director of GCHQ, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Policy in the MOD and Principal Private Secretary of the Secretary of State for Defence. He is the Senior Independent Director of Babcock International Group plc and a senior adviser to Paladin Capital, investing in cybersecurity start-ups. He is the author of Securing the State (Hurst) 2010 and (with Professor Mark Phythian) Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence (OUP, 2018).

Olivia joined Hampshire Constabulary as chief constable in April 2016. She is focused on ensuring that the people the constabulary serves, their families and our communities are safer by tackling crime and offending, identifying and protecting those who need our help, and building partnerships that enable a better public service. A great service can only be delivered through the values of transparency, integrity, impartiality and always putting the public first. Olivia’s commitment to her officers and staff is reflected in her focus upon their wellbeing, both short and long term. Her track record includes championing the force’s pioneering work around helping colleagues who are victims of assault. Olivia is the chair of the National Police Coordination Committee for Local Policing, the national lead for the Policing of Children and Young People and the national chaplaincy lead for the police service. Olivia began her policing career with Avon and Somerset Constabulary. She later served as assistant chief constable for Surrey and Sussex forces before being appointed deputy chief constable at Sussex. In 2013, Olivia was appointed assistant inspector of constabulary with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, independently reporting on the effectiveness and efficiency of all police forces in England and Wales. Outside of work, Olivia is a keen sports-watching mum, and enthusiastically joins in with many outdoor activities. Olivia was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the 2016 New Year Honours list.

Conrad Prince is a Distinguished Fellow at the UK defence and security think tank, the Royal United Services Institute. He is also RUSI’s senior adviser on cyber security, offensive cyber, and related intelligence and security issues. He was formerly the Director General for Operations and deputy head of the UK’s signals intelligence and cyber security agency, GCHQ, where he led the intelligence and active cyber operations for seven years. He was subsequently the UK’s first Cyber Security Ambassador. Conrad left Government service in 2018 and now acts as an advisor on cyber security to a range of institutions including Boston Consulting Group, BAE Systems, and Nationwide Building Society.

Peter Ruddock became the Chief Executive of Lockheed Martin UK in January 2016. Mr Ruddock represents Lockheed Martin at the Defence Suppliers Forum and on the Defence Growth Partnership Steering Committee. His previous role, which he held since joining the company in 2011, was as Business Development Director with responsibility for the development and execution of strategies to grow the business and strengthen customer relationships. He was also a member of the Ascent Board (Military Flying Training) for 4-years. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr Ruddock successfully completed fifteen different appointments in the Royal Air Force before leaving the Service, as an Air Marshal (3-star), in March 2011. His final appointment, which he held for 5-years, was as Director General Saudi Armed Forces Projects (based in Riyadh) with responsibility for a £4.3bn pound a year defence portfolio that included: Typhoon; Tornado; Hawk; PC-9; and the Al Jawf class (Sandown) minehunter. Air Marshal Ruddock’s previous tour was as the RAF’s Personnel Director with responsibility for more than 48,000 service personnel. This built on a variety of successful high-grade appointments in the UK Ministry of Defence, which covered most aspects of RAF and Defence business, plus an operational tour as the UK Air Component Commander for Air Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq during 2002. During his early military career, Air Marshal Ruddock spent 5-years in two key intelligence appointments, commanded the largest air defence base in the RAF and was the main driving force behind the UK’s enhanced Air Defence posture post 9/11. His time as a fighter pilot included: two tours as an instructor pilot and flight examiner; commanding the Qualified Weapons Instructors Course (the RAF’s equivalent of ‘Top Gun’); flying test and evaluation sorties on the Tornado Operational Evaluation Unit; and displaying the historic Spitfire and Hurricane with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for five seasons. In recognition of his exceptional service, Air Marshal Ruddock was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 2011, a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2001 and awarded the US Legion of Merit (officer class) in 2004 for outstanding leadership on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2002. An alumnus of Manchester Business School, Mr Ruddock is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the founding Vice President of the Riyadh Branch of the RAeS in Saudi Arabia. Air Marshal Ruddock attended the Joint Force Air Commanders Course; Royal Air Force Advanced Staff College; the UK MOD Resource Management Course at Henley Management College; and the Higher Management Training Programme at Ashridge Management College. He has also completed the Windsor Leadership Trust Experienced Strategic Leaders Programme and delivered highly acclaimed courses in leadership, within the RAF and to industry. Mr Ruddock is married to Joanna, who runs a heritage research and consultancy business, and they have homes in London and Cheltenham. He has two adult children, Alison and David, from a previous marriage.

General Patrick Sanders was commissioned into The Royal Green Jackets in 1986 and spent his early career at Regimental Duty in Germany, Norway and the UK. He has commanded at company, battalion, brigade, and divisional level, including on operations in Northern Ireland (multiple tours), Kosovo (1999 and 2002), Bosnia (2001), Iraq (2007), and Afghanistan (2011-12). His staff appointments have all been in operational and strategic roles. These have included Brigade Chief of Staff, Directing Staff at the Joint Staff College, Pol/Mil adviser for the Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq in 2003-4, Colonel Army Strategy, a brief tenure as Chief of Defence Staff’s Liaison Officer to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and more recently Head Operations (Military) and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in the MOD. His previous two appointments were GOC 3rd (UK) Division and Commander Field Army. He was promoted to General in May 2019 and assumed the post of Commander Joint Forces Command. He is Colonel Commandant of the Honourable Artillery Company and will assume the appointment of Colonel Commandant of The Rifles from July 2019. He speaks French and Norwegian, colloquial Spanish and can tell when he is being insulted in Arabic, Pashtun, Dari, Albanian and Serbo-Croat. Married to Fiona Bullen, a successful author, they have a son (Kit) working in London. General Sanders enjoys cycling, ski touring and alpine skiing, shooting and whisky. He is a martyr to Tottenham Hotspur FC. He dislikes scotch eggs and can’t bear Arsenal.

Paul started his career in defence in the early 1980s with Pilkington Optronics, a high technology electro-optical company providing a range of optical displays and targeting systems. After 20 years, Paul left a board position to help Thales create an international soldier modernisation business, before moving on to join General Dynamics UK. Here he helped create a Middle Eastern Joint Venture oriented toward national scale IT security, and spent some time living in Saudi Arabia. Paul now looks after BAE Systems Applied Intelligence’s Defence Solutions where he is proud to be able focus his skills and efforts to supporting the United Kingdom Defence and Security mission.

Air Marshal Edward Stringer is the Director General of Joint Force Development, and DG Defence Academy, within Joint Forces Command. For those familiar with military terminology he is the de facto ‘J7’ for the UK’s Military Strategic Headquarters. For those not so steeped, he owns the conceptual element of UK fighting power: concepts & doctrine, training & education, exercise & experimentation, lessons learned & innovation. Before that he was Assistant CDS (Operations) in the MOD in Whitehall, essentially the MOD’s operations director – from UK flood-relief to the Deterrent. Previously he had been ACAS, the RAF’s Assistant Chief, responsible for all policy interaction with MOD and for the RAF Board’s business. He arrived there from seeing the inside of the Pentagon as CDS’ Liaison Officer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. A previous Commandant Air Warfare Centre and head of RAF Intelligence he has had operational commands in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans. A one-time Jaguar pilot and weapons instructor (QWI) he first saw action in the Gulf War in ’91 and in the no-fly zone (NFZ) operations that followed.

Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she is the Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and is Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her recent work focuses on the ethics of AI, cyber security, cyber conflicts, and ethics of digital innovation. Her area of expertise is Philosophy and Ethics of Information. She has been listed among the top 50 most inspiring Italian women working in AI in 2018. ORBIT nominated her among the top 100 brillinat women in AI Ethics. Dr Taddeo has been awarded The Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy, and the 2014 World Technology Award for Ethics acknowledging the impact of her research on the ethics of cyber conflicts. Since 2016, Taddeo serves as editor-in-chief of Minds & Machines (SpringerNature) and of Philosophical Studies Series (SpringerNature).

Mark is an environmental scientist who has spent 30 years advising clients on the environmental and social impacts of their business activities. Following graduation he briefly worked for the environmental regulator before joining the UK's first dedicated environmental consultancy in 1989. Early work focused on managing environmental impact assessments of large infrastructure projects in the UK and Hong Kong, including; the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (what became High Speed 1); the Jubilee Line Extension; the West Kowloon Reclamation and a 6000MWe coal-fired power station for China Light & Power. He joined the environmental team at PwC in 1999 and led a series of large environmental due diligence projects as part of the firm's M&A service offering. From 2005-07 he was seconded to PwC Russia and led the environmental team working across Russia and the CIS. Since returning to PwC in London he has advised clients such as JaguarLandrover, Leonardo, The Royal Navy and The Poppy Factory on how their activities generate environmental, economic and social impacts and value to society. He is married to Lee, a senior civil servant at the Dept. of Health and Social Care and they have two sons, one recently graduated, the other about to start university. Mark is a late addition to the mid-life cycling fraternity and otherwise relaxes playing rhythm & blues guitar in a couple of bands with a very modest following in the Wimbledon area.

Francis Tusa has been a leading defence journalist and analyst for nearly 30 years. Having started working at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in 1987, and there setting up the Middle East Defence programme, he has subsequently worked for a wide range of written and broadcast outlets including Sky News, CNN, the Guardian, and many BBC channels. Within the defence media, he worked as UK and then European Editor for Armed Forces Journal International, and has written Janes, Flight International, Defense News and Aviation Week and Space Technology, as well as numerous Asian/Middle East defence magazines. He set up his newsletter, Defence Analysis, in 1998, and it has become a unique resource for defence data, intelligence and analysis, providing unrivalled information on defence budgets, industrial budgets and politics, and global defence markets. Another first was setting up Military Logistics International, the first – and only - magazine devoted to defence support/logistics.