About the CSSM Team

Dr Ann Fitz-Gerald

Director

afitzgerald.cu@defenceacademy.mod.uk
pic - AnnAnn Fitz-Gerald is an Associate Professor in Cranfield University's Department of Engineering Systems and Management (for the Defence and Security Sectors), and the Associate Dean (Research). She holds degrees in Commerce, International Relations, War Studies and Security & Defence Management. Her PhD examined the impact national disparities with multinational military forces could have on sustainable development programmes running simultaneously with peace support operations in post-conflict states. Following an initial career in the financial sector, she entered Canadian diplomacy which included posts at the Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Centre and NATO Headquarters. She is currently serves on the Boards of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Saferworld, the Candian International Council (CIC), and the Security Sector Advisory Group for UK Trade and Investment. She also chairs the International Working Group on National Security.

Ann has worked on national security, security sector reform/management and joined-up government issues for 16 years and is widely published in this field. Her work in the field has included the facilitation of national security strategy processes in post-conflict, developing and developed states. Her most recent book is an edited volume entitled From Conflict to Community: A Combatant's Return to Citizenship. Ann has worked in both research and practitioner capacities in Africa, Asia, South-East Europe and the Caribbean. She led the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) between 2002-2006 and is now Director, Education and Research for the Cranfield Centre for Security Sector Management. She is academic leader of the MSc Security Sector Management and leads Cranfield University’s research programmes in Security Sector Management, Stabilisation and National Security.

Ann is regularly invited to contribute to curriculum at international and UK-based universities. She is also presents to a number of national defence staff colleges, including Kuwait, the Netherlands, Ireland and Ethiopia.

Key Research Areas

Security Sector Management; National Security Strategy/Policy; Whole-of-Government Approaches (WGA); SSR;



Dennis Blease

Deputy Director

d.blease@cranfield.ac.uk
pic - DennisBefore joining the Centre for Security Sector Management in 2008, Dennis Blease was NATO’s Security Sector Reform (SSR) Advisor in the Western Balkans. He has senior military experience in NATO and European policy, peace support operations, conflict prevention work, security sector transformation and development, diplomacy and advising on SSR at governmental level.

He has spent a total of 9 years working with NATO. As Commander of NATO’s mission in the Republic of Macedonia, he advised the Government on post-conflict reconstruction programmes and SSR, as well as Whole of Government Approaches to transformation. This role was expanded to the regional level when he was appointed NATO’s lead on SSR matters for the Western Balkans. He worked closely with the governments of the region, in particular with Ministers of Defence, and their ministries and general staffs. As part of his recent work in Kosovo, he was a major contributor to the security sections of the UN-sponsored Ahtisaari Comprehensive Proposals.

His recent appointments include: Deputy Director for NATO and European Policy in the UK MOD; Director of the Joint Operations Centre for NATO’s Southern Region; European Union Operations Director for Op CONCORDIA (the EU’s first ESDP mission); Commander of NATO’s mission in the Republic of Macedonia; and Military Advisor to President Ahtisaari, the United Nations Special Envoy for the future status of Kosovo.

Dennis is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Member (by examination) of the City and Guilds Institute, a Member of the Institute of Directors, and a graduate of Cranfield University and the Australian Army Command and Staff College.

He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Security Sector Management; a member of the International Advisory Board of Analytica, a Balkans-based think-tank; a member of the PfP Consortium working group on ‘Regional Stability in South-East Europe’; a member of the International Working Group on National Security (IWGNS), which is currently chaired by CSSM; a member of the editorial board of the Slovenian-based journal ‘European Perspectives’ that focuses on the Western Balkans; and on the International Advisory Board of CSSM’s MSc in Security Sector Management.

He is currently undertaking research into NATO’s role in SSR engagements as part of his PhD studies with Cranfield University.



Mr Tom Hamilton-Baillie

Programme Manager

thamilton-baillie.cu@defenceacademy.mod.uk
pic - Tom Tom Hamilton-Baillie joined the Centre at the end of May as the programme manager. He takes over programme and operations co-ordination work formerly done by Brig (Retd) Gordon Hughes.

Tom is no stranger to the CSSM or to Shrivenham. He was a student here on the 1979 Army Staff Course, then a member of the RMCS directing staff in the late 1990s. Since leaving the Army, he has done the Global Security MSc at Cranfield (Course No 2) and then, after a short gap working for the European Union in former Yugoslavia, joined the UK MOD as a civil servant with the Defence Advisory Team, later the Security Sector Development Advisory Team. The SSDAT was based in Wellington Hall until its move to DFID’s offices in London.

Tom has extensive knowledge and experience of working in sub-Saharan Africa and plans to engage in a range of CSSM’s activities in, among other African countries, Ethiopia, Uganda Botswana and Malawi. Nor will he be confined to African work. Tom hopes to get involved in programmes in the Middle East, in Nepal and in the Far East as well as exploring new security sector management opportunities elsewhere in the world.



Mr Anthony Cleland Welch OBE

a.welch@cranfield.ac.uk
pic - Mr Anthony ClelandBefore joining the Centre for Security Sector Management Tony Welch worked in the military and with international organisations undertaking peacebuilding and development roles. He served in the British Army for twenty-three years in Europe, the Middle East and the South Atlantic. He is a graduate of the British Army Staff College and the Higher Command & Staff Course. He taught at both the Army and RAF Staff Colleges. After taking early retirement in 1993, in the rank of Brigadier, he joined the United Nations and was appointed Head of Joint Policy Planning and Coordination for the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the former Yugoslavia. He later joined the European Community Monitor Mission and was head of the Regional Offices in Albania and Serbia & Montenegro. He then moved to the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR/OSCE) with responsibility for the monitoring of presidential and parliamentary elections throughout the Balkans region. In 1998 he joined the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) as their Conflict and Security Adviser, undertaking missions in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, South Africa, the Solomon Islands and the Balkans. On the conclusion of the conflict in Kosovo, he was appointed Head of the DFID Office in Pristina and later became the United Nations Administrator of Kosovo’s northern region. In 2006 he coordinated the Internal Security Sector Review of Kosovo. During 2007 -2009 he acted as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on justice and security matters and the European Agency for Reconstruction on economics in post-conflict states. He hold post-graduate degrees from the University of Portsmouth and is about to defend his PhD thesis. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Trustee of the Centre for South East European Studies, Trustee of Vencorp Private Equity Partners, Member of the Armed Forces Law Association of New Zealand and a Governor of South Downs College in Hampshire.



Dr Anastasia Filippidou

Lecturer/Researcher

afilippidou.cu@da.mod.uk
pic - AnastasiaAnastasia Filippidou is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for Security Sector Management, Department of Engineering Systems and Management, Cranfield University. She holds degrees in International Relations, Political Economy, Journalism, Academic Practice and e-teaching. She is the co-editor of the Journal for Security Sector Management. Her field of expertise is conflict termination and conflict resolution processes; negotiation theories and tactics; the ending of terrorist campaigns and the facilitation of peaceful transition and she has published and presented papers in conferences on these subjects. Her book on Peace Processes and Negotiating Tactics with Terrorist Organisations, contracted by Palgrave, is to be published this year (ISBN: 978-0-230-24101-5) under the ‘Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series’ edited by Prof Oliver P. Richmond. Anastasia worked with the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, at the Defence Studies Department directing the development and delivery of the Tactical Negotiation Skills and Piracy Issues workshops for the Royal Navy (European Piracy Task Force); the US Naval War College, Rhode Island; the Military College in Ireland (Maynouth) and the European Task Force in Naples. Anastasia worked with the Centre for Defence Studies, delivering courses on terrorism and counterterrorism for the Home Office.

Prior to her employment at Cranfield University, Anastasia held the post of Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. The courses taught covered a broad range of International Relations, Security and Strategic Studies. Anastasia was also a lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University, while her teaching experience has further been fostered by four years of teaching at the War Studies Department (2000-2004). She has worked as a researcher for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at the Ministry of Defence on the project ‘Comparative Research on Terrorist Campaigns and their Resolution’ (2002). Anastasia has working experience at the European Parliament (1996-1997), while her first degree was in journalism and she worked as a newsreader and reporter prior to embarking on an academic career. She is fluent in French, Spanish, Greek and English; she is proficient in Russian, and she is now learning Arabic.

Key Research Areas

Peaceful conflict transformation; psychology of war and peace; the role of leadership in conflicts and their resolution; negotiation theories and tactics; ending of terrorist campaigns; lesson identification, learning and transmission.



Laura Cataldo

Courses Manager

l.cataldo@cranfield.ac.uk
pic - LauraLaura Cataldo has a BSc (Hons) degree from Newcastle University and is currently a student on the part time MSc in Security Sector Management. Laura joined the team in August 2004 and is the courses manager for the Security Sector Management education programme, including the MSc (UK and Export) and accredited short courses.



Shawny Donohue

Programme Officer

sdonohue.dcmt@defenceacademy.mod.uk
pic - ShawnyShawny Donohue graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and Environmental Studies from the University of New England, USA. Before joining CSSM, she worked in the area of Natural Resources Management with the United States Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa. Shawny began the MSc Security Sector Management program in September 2008 and recently joined the CSSM team in October 2008.



Carol Gay

Team Administrator

cgay.cu@defenceacademy.mod.uk
pic - CarolCarol joined Cranfield University in 2003 as a Course Co-ordinator for the MSc Defence Acquisition Management Course. In 2005 she changed roles to become PA to the Head of Department, Defence Management & Security Analysis. In May 2009, Carol joined CSSM as the Team Administrator. Her responsibilities include general administration, overseas travel arrangements and PA support to team members, in particular supporting Dr Ann Fitz-Gerald, Director CSSM.



Gordon Hughes CBE

Senior CSSM Associate

hughes6@un.org
pic - GordonGordon Hughes first joined CSSM in 2006. He is currently the Chief Adviser of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN). He is also the Deputy Head of Mission.

In his previous appointment as Director of Operations at the Centre for Security Sector Management (CSSM), Cranfield University (UK), Mr. Hughes led a number of projects relating to security and defence transformation. In 2008 he undertook a 6 month assignment as the UN's Senior Security Sector Adviser drawing up a "road map" to guide the UN's emerging approach to security sector development. This work involved field assessments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and East Timor.

Gordon Hughes is a former UK Army Brigadier with experience in Africa working as a Regional Conflict Adviser. His military appointments include Commander British Forces (including the International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT)) in Sierra Leone, and Commander BMATT South Africa, where he led initiatives within the security sector on integration and training. He has commanded troops up to brigade level and served on operations in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Sierra Leone.

His specialist knowledge includes strategic planning; conflict prevention; security sector development; post-conflict reconstruction; and training. He has recent experience working in Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Burundi, DR Congo, Timor-Leste, Uganda and Nepal.

Mr. Hughes is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and a Graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. He is a member of the Cranfield University International Advisory Board for the MSc in Security Sector Management, and the International Working Group on National Security.



Dr Stephanie Blair

Programme Manager, Europe

s.blair@ssronline.org
pic - StephanieStephanie Blair was educated at York University, Toronto, Canada; Cranfield University, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, UK, and has recently defended her PhD at King's College London, in the War Studies Department.

She was a member of the team which established the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre where she served as advisor to the President until 1997. In this capacity she was the co-founder of the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres, and served as its first secretariat director.

Ms Blair has a unique field experience in serving throughout with the Kosovo crisis with both the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). She worked as a municipal administrator and policy adviser. During this crisis that she worked extensively with the KLA-UCK and supported its transition to the KPC.

Since her fieldwork in Kosovo, she continues to work as an independent consultant in the SSR field and has undertaken work for UN OCHA, and the EU.



Dr Sylvie Jackson

Strategic Performance & Change Management


pic - SylvieDr Sylvie Jackson joined Cranfield University as a Senior Lecturer at the Defence Academy of the UK in 1999 after a period of consultancy work and a lengthy career in The Post Office where she started as a counter clerk and rose to Quality and Business Process Director for Purchasing and Logistics. Other roles included training counter clerks, sales, customer care and total quality management. Her qualifications include a PhD in Transformational Change, MBA and Postgraduate Diplomas in both Management Studies and Marketing. During the past 10 years, she has undertaken extensive research in the fields of both change management and performance measurement in terms of how is discipline is applied in the wider security context. She is the Academic Leader of the Cranfield University Master's of Business Administration (Defence) and is one of the core academics supporting both the MSc Security Sector Management and the MSc in Resilience. She has contributed to a number of security sector-related educational and policy development capacity-building programmes involving a range of transitional societies, including Mozambique, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria and others. Sylvie is widely published in the fields of performance and change, with her most recent work supporting the development of a performance measurement system for security and development.



Dr Roger Darby

Strategic International Human Resource Management & Change


pic - RogerDr Darby, a specialist in international human resource management and organisational behaviour, holds a DPhil from the University of Sussex , a MEd from the University of Birmingham and a BA (Hons) from the University of Warwick . Prior to joining Cranfield University he has held a number of academic appointments including at the University of Birmingham Business School, the European Business School (London), Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Oxford Brookes University. In addition, internationally he has continued to hold visiting professorships in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria , Hungary , Germany , South Africa , Singapore and China . More recently he has held appointments at the Higher Colleges of Technology and the American University in Dubai in the Middle East.

His professional expertise includes consultancy and training work with a wide variety of international public and private sector representatives. He is responsible for the development and academic leadership of the first MSc IHRM (Defence) course run at Shrivenham in conjunction with the School of Management. He is also heavily involved in research and teaching on the "Managing Defence in A Wider Security Context" courses run at Shrivenham and many regions across the world including Africa, South East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Lastly, Dr Darby is also module leader for the "Managing Security Sector Resources: Organisations, People and Money" module on the MSc Security Sector Management and the related accredited short courses.

Dr Darby's research has been presented at international conferences and published in academic and professional journals such as the European Business Review, Journal of European Industrial Training, Asian Pacific Business Review, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management. His most recent research is on the cross-cultural effects on Knowledge Management.



Dr David Chuter

Senior Research Fellow in National Security


pic - DavidDavid Chuter was born in 1952, and educated at London University, where he took a BA and Ph D. He joined the UK Ministry of Defence in 1976. Much of his experience has been in the international arena, working with the military, police, intelligence services, diplomatic services and others from all parts of the world. His career has included responsibility for arms control and disarmament (1989-90), Defence aspects of European integration after the Cold War and the Maastricht Political Union Treaty (1991-92) and developing political relations with Asian countries aimed at encouraging them to buy UK exports (1994-97). He was subsequently responsible for various aspects of UK policy towards the Balkans, including transitional justice issues and support to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and involvement with the ICC negotiations. He was most recently responsible for policy on defence against weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. From 2005 to 2008, he was an exchange officer at the French MoD in Paris, working mostly on post-conflict issues including peacekeeping, SSR and DDR and policy related to Anglophone Africa. He is taking early retirement from the British government at the end of 2008, to concentrate on other issues.

David has spent some time in the academic world also. From 1993-94 he was Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies (CDS) at the University of London, and from 2001-3 Research Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is a graduate of the British Army Higher Command and Staff Course, the French approximate equivalent, and a variety of similar courses.

During his time at the CDS, he became involved in the security transition process in South Africa between 1993 and 95. He was particularly involved in discussions leading to the formation of a Ministry of Defence. In turn, he was involved in the design and implementation of training courses for the MoD’s new personnel. This led to the development of a parallel career as an SSR consultant and lecturer in various parts of the world. He has been extensively involved in SSR activities in Africa, most recently in South Sudan, working with an international team, as well as in Eastern Europe. He has been an adviser to many SSR activities, and helped set up the UK’s original Defence Advisory Team in 2001. He lectures frequently on SSR courses in Africa and elsewhere, and on courses funded by the British government for officials from security sectors of countries in transition. He has also written a textbook on the subject which is being revised for publication in 2009.

He has also developed a second parallel career as an author and academic. As well as his book on SSR (Defence Transformation, 2000, new edition in preparation) he is the author of Humanity’s Soldier: France and International Security (1996) and War Crimes (2003) as well as many shorter articles on security-related subjects.

His personal website, with copies of documents and presentations is at www.davidchuter.com



Dr Martin Rupiya

Senior Research Fellow


pic - MartinMartin is a Retired Lieutenant Colonel from Zimbabwe Defence Forces and has worked at the University of Zimbabwe as the Director of the Centre for Defence Studies and Senior Lecturer in History of War; Strategic Studies and Contemporary African Security. He has completed an MA in War studies from Kings College London and a PhD in Military History at the University of Zimbabwe.

In March 2003 Martin joined the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria where he became widely published, Martin has also presented at numerous international conferences. He has worked with Parliamentarians in the Eastern, Central and Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector, Civil Military Relations (CMR) and Defence Policy and Expenditure. His areas of research centre around HIV/AIDS and Armed Forces in Africa; disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration and Security Sector Reform challenges in the Great Lakes, the Horn, Central and Southern Africa and in particular Zimbabwe.



Brigadier-General (Ret) Don Macnamara OMM, CD, BA, MA, DMilSc

Senior Research Fellow in National Security

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pic - DonDon Macnamara, a specialist in national and international security affairs and strategic analysis, had a 37 year career in the Canadian Armed Forces, retiring as a Brigadier-General. His last 15 years of service included appointments as Director, Unified Studies, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, Director, Strategic Policy Planning and Director, Arms Control Policy in National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, and Director Strategic and International Studies and Director of Curriculum, National Defence College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.

He joined the faculty of Queen's University School of Business in 1988, and has taught international business and strategy in the Commerce, MBA and Executive MBA programs. He was Executive Director of the Queen's University International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England, and taught International Management for four summer semesters at Kaiserslautern University in Germany. He is the Associate Director of the Public Executive Program and is also a Senior Fellow in the Queen’s Centre for International Relations.

A founding member and past president of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, he is immediate past president of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in Public Policy. He also currently serves as Honorary Colonel, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Royal Military College of Canada and of the Air Command Advisory Council.

He received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, a M.A. from the University of Toronto, a D.Sc. Mil (hc) from the Royal Military College of Canada, and is a graduate of both the Canadian Forces Staff College and the National Defence College of Canada.

Appointed Officer in the Order of Military Merit in 1978, he was the co-recipient of the School of Business Scholars of Excellence Award in 1989, received the Commerce Society Award for Teaching Excellence in 1990, and was recognized for efforts in international education by being made a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International in 1994.In 2001, he was awarded a Chief of Defence Staff Commendation for his “contribution to strategic planning, professional military education and professional development”.



Alastair Robertson

Web Development Manager

a.roberston@cranfield.ac.uk
pic - Alastair Alastair has been the Lead Developer for the web site for the past three and a half years. This role included the design and deployment of a Content Management System with an extremely flexible information architecture that manages the following sections: News reports, fully searchable databases, e-books, e-learning content, private areas for members and the team, discussion boards, forums and newsletters as well as other areas. Alastair continued to build upon the success of the site; developing it to cover multi language support. French, Spanish and Portuguese are covered with the goal to have the ability to host any language.

Previously Alastair was the Distance Learning Developer for the MDA program at Cranfield University Shrivenham Campus. This role included the design and development of the exceedingly successful custom e-learning platform (BLISS) to deliver highly interactive Flash based content. BLISS incorporates collaborative discussion areas and access to online information repositories for both students and academics. The BLISS system has proved ideal for delivering e-learning in areas of poor to low connectivity due to its low bandwidth and system/server requirement. His core skills include: CMS / IA development, ColdFusion, SQL, CSS2, XHTML, XML, Flash, Fireworks, Unicode, RSS, Search Engine Optimisation.



Peter Jolliffe

Senior Web Developer

p.m.jolliffe@cranfield.ac.uk
pic - Peter Peter is a BSc (Hons) graduate who has been working within the Web Development industry for 4 years. Prior to his arrival at Cranfield University, he worked as a web freelancer during which time he was contracted by a number of academic institutions, including Cranfield University.

For the past 3 years he has been a senior developer on the SSR and JofSSM projects, designing and implementing tailored solutions to fulfil, promote and further the aims and reach of the project. He currently supports both the web development and information management teams. Duties include sourcing, coordinating, promoting and expanding the content held on the SSRonline databases. Additional responsibilities include SSRonline regional network development. A major element of this duty is the regular communication and information dissemination with the SSRonline registered contacts via email circulars and the newsletter.



Stephen Anderton

Consultant

stephen@anderton.myzen.co.uk
pic - StephenStephen Anderton is an independent consultant specialising in the delivery of solutions in the security, defence and stabilisation areas. He is an experienced and successful leader of major proposal and project teams for major industry security providers and academic institutions. He is also the Executive Director of a property management company in Surrey. He was previously the Director of Development and Reconstruction for ArmorGroup International plc, a global risk management and security company specialising in delivery in hazardous environments around the world. Stephen is a strategist and policy maker, with extensive Whitehall experience. He is a former Air Commodore in the Royal Air Force, which he left in 2005. His final appointment was Commandant General RAF Regiment and where he headed the RAF’s Force Protection and Security organisation. He was responsible for the risk management, force protection and pre-deployment training of all the Royal Air Force’s personnel and high value assets in volatile and hazardous regions. He is also a former principle adviser on international affairs to the Chief of The Air Staff. He has served extensively in the Ministry of Defence in London as a senior staff officer and as front line commander he operated in many locations around the world. Stephen holds a masters degree in Corporate Management from Cranfield University and is a graduate of the Royal Air Force Advanced Staff College and the Defence Strategic Leadership Programme. Stephen is based in Guildford, Surrey.



Contact Details

Centre for Security Sector Management (CSSM)
Wellington Hall
Cranfield University
Shrivenham
SN6 8LA, UK

l.cataldo@cranfield.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1793 785020
Fax: +44 (0) 1793 785771