Chris Abbott is a consultant, writer and thought leader in the areas of defence, security and international relations. He is the founder and Executive Director of Open Briefing and the author of two popular books on international security and politics. 

He has worked for a wide range of clients, from the British Ministry of Defence and the Australian Federal Police to Greenpeace International, and had articles commissioned by publications as diverse as Jane's Intelligence Review and New Internationalist. 

His work focuses on non-traditional security threats and how to address them. He is particularly skilled at clearly drawing out the linkages between seemingly disparate issues and in setting out radical and challenging analysis and proposals in ways that both policymakers and the general public can actually listen to them. He is also uniquely able to move between the public, private and voluntary sectors, as comfortable working with government officials, serving soldiers or business leaders as he is with academics, journalists or campaigners.    

Chris is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford and Honorary Sustainable Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group (ORG), a leading global security think tank of which he was Deputy Director until 2009. He is also a Senior Analyst at Wikistrat. Throughout 2008, he was an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol.

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