Julian Lindley-French, Ph.D., M.A. (Dist.), M.A. (Oxon.)
AIES Associate Fellow
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 also an Advisor to General Sir David Richards, Chief of the General Staff and Head of the Commander’s Initiative Group (CIG) for NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC). 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.
In January 2007 he published a new book entitled “NATO: The Enduring Alliance” for Routledge in the US and Europe. In November 2007, following his return from a trip to Afghanistan, he prepared a major report on the situation therein and the way ahead to which he added a second report in April 2008 after a further trip. In January 2008 he published a new book on the history of European defence for Oxford University Press which was nominated for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. In February 2009 he launched a report on Stabilisation and Reconstruction Operations relations for CSIS in Washington and also published a major Bertelsmann-RAND report on the transatlantic relationship with Steve Larrabee of RAND Washington. He is currently Chief Editor of the Oxford Handbook on War for Oxford University Press which will be published in 2010 and has just completed work on a new book on British national strategy with Professor Paul Cornish of Chatham House.