Julian Lindley-French

Member of the Strategic Advisors Group, Atlantic Council and Professor at the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands

Julian Lindley-French is Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy, Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden and Senior Associate Fellow of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He is Head of the Commander’s Initiative Group (CIG) for NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) in which he is leading efforts to operationalise the Comprehensive Approach. A member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Atlantic Council of the US in Washington he was formerly a Course Director at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and European Co-Chair of the US-European Working Group on Stabilisation and Reconstruction Missions for CSIS and is currently Project Leader for the Atlantic Council’s Stratcon 2010 project on the NATO Strategic Concept. He is also an Associate Fellow of both the Royal Institute for International Affairs, (Chatham House) in London and the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy in Vienna. Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England in 1958 he is an Oxford historian and Oxford Blue. He received a Masters Degree in International Relations (with distinction) from UEA and holds a doctorate in political science from the European University Institute. He has lectured in European Security at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London, and therein was Deputy Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA). He was Senior Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris and acted as a consultant to NATO in Brussels where in 1999 he was recognised for outstanding service.