Chris Abbott is a social entrepreneur, author, and ally.
Chris is the founder and CEO of Open Briefing. Open Briefing is a unique non-profit that provides at-risk human rights defenders and high-profile civic actors with mentoring, capacity building and multilingual resources to improve their safety and security, digital security, and wellbeing and resilience. As a social enterprise, Open Briefing also helps major charities, foundations, and social businesses meet their risk management, duty of care, data protection, and safeguarding obligations.
Chris was previously the deputy director of the renowned Oxford Research Group and an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol and in the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford. During that time, he pioneered holistic approaches to global security, including groundbreaking work on sustainable security, climate security, and remote warfare. He also authored two popular books and more than 50 influential reports and articles on security and politics.
The international media has widely reported on his work and Archbishop Desmond Tutu described it as 'radical in the proper sense'.
Chris is passionate about scaling impact through innovative tools and remote support. He is the lead author of the Holistic Security Protocol for Human Rights Defenders, the Minimum Operating Travel Security Standards (MOTSS), and Frontline Policies, and the creator of Frontline Travel and the Security Risk Assessment Tool (SRAT).
He is also a collaborator in the new Civic Ecosystems Initiative of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at LSE.
Chris is the founder and CEO of Open Briefing. Open Briefing is a unique non-profit that provides at-risk human rights defenders and high-profile civic actors with mentoring, capacity building and multilingual resources to improve their safety and security, digital security, and wellbeing and resilience. As a social enterprise, Open Briefing also helps major charities, foundations, and social businesses meet their risk management, duty of care, data protection, and safeguarding obligations.
Chris was previously the deputy director of the renowned Oxford Research Group and an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol and in the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford. During that time, he pioneered holistic approaches to global security, including groundbreaking work on sustainable security, climate security, and remote warfare. He also authored two popular books and more than 50 influential reports and articles on security and politics.
The international media has widely reported on his work and Archbishop Desmond Tutu described it as 'radical in the proper sense'.
Chris is passionate about scaling impact through innovative tools and remote support. He is the lead author of the Holistic Security Protocol for Human Rights Defenders, the Minimum Operating Travel Security Standards (MOTSS), and Frontline Policies, and the creator of Frontline Travel and the Security Risk Assessment Tool (SRAT).
He is also a collaborator in the new Civic Ecosystems Initiative of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at LSE.
