DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE
Professor Malcolm Chalmers is Deputy Director-General of RUSI and directs its growing portfolio of research into contemporary defence and security issues. His own work is focused on UK defence, foreign and security policy, and his most recent papers have been on national interest and UK foreign policy, tensions between the rules-based international systems and UK spending priorities. Chalmers has been an Adviser to Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy since 2012, and was Senior Special Adviser to Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw MP and Margaret Beckett MP.