Visiting Professor and Visiting Senior Fellows

Visitors bring their experience and expertise to the IDEAS team for a limited time.

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Find out more about joining IDEAS as a Visitor on our Visiting Appointments page.

Visiting Professors

Gordon Barrass is a Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS. He was a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Chief of the Assessments Staff during the last years of the Cold War. His latest book, The Great Cold War - A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors, has been highly acclaimed in both Washington and Moscow.

John Hughes is a Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE IDEAS. He was a British career diplomat for 35 years serving mainly in the Americas, together with secondments to the Cabinet Office, BAe Systems, and Shell. His final postings were as Ambassador to Venezuela and then to Argentina. In retirement he has been Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, Chair of Canning House, a Robin Humphreys Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, London University, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE.

Current Visiting Senior Fellows

Sir Robert Cooper is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He was educated at Oxford and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1970. Since then Mr Cooper has worked at various British Embassies abroad and since mid-2002 he has been working on behalf of the EU.

Tom McKane is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS and a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. Tom spent more than 36 years as a civil servant, mainly in the UK Ministry of Defence, including substantial spells on defence policy and planning. In his last six years in the Ministry of Defence Tom was, successively, Director General for Strategy and Director General for Security Policy.

Julian Miller is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. Julian Miller was appointed Deputy National Security Adviser in July 2010 and has worked in the Cabinet Office since September 2009. He joined the Civil Service in 1980. He has spent most of his career in the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, where he authors a weekly column on foreign affairs and feature articles. Before joining the Financial Times in 2006, he was a senior editor and correspondent for The Economist and BBC World Service presenter. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in Washington, Brussels, and Bangkok, and is the author of Zero-Sum World.

Jamie Shea has occupied a number of positions at NATO; Spokesman during the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, Director of Information and Press, Director of Policy Planning in the Private office of the Secretary General, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Emerging Security Challenges. While at IDEAS, Dr Shea will contribute to research on global security and the MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy.

Tan Sri Munir Majid is a Honary Fellow at LSE. Dr Majid was formerly Executive Chairman of the Malaysian Securities Commission, Chairman of Malaysia Airlines, and Group Editor of the New Straits Times (NST).

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