Charlie Edwards
Senior Researcher
Charlie Edwards is a Senior Researcher and leads the Security Programme at Demos. He works with international institutions, government departments, companies, and NGOs. He is a regular commentator on national security and defence policy in the national and international media.
Contact details:
Tel: 0207 367 6321
Email: charlie[dot]edwards@demos[dot]co[dot]uk
- Expertise:
- His current work focuses on national security, British armed forces, intelligence reform
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Charlie Edwards is a Senior Researcher and leads the Security Programme at Demos.
His current work focuses on national security, British defence, ESDP, corporate security and resilience, policing, and public diplomacy
He works with international institutions, government departments, companies, and NGOs. He is a regular commentator on national security and defence policy in the national and international media.
Charlie's most recent report is National Security for the Twenty-first century.
Charlie has run futures workshops with senior Police officers and with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Department for International Development (DFID).
Charlie has worked for a political consultancy and in the UK Parliament. He began his career working at NATO. He has an MA in War Studies from King’s College London.
He is currently a guest editor for the Global Dashboard blog.
He is the author of National Security for the Twenty-first century (Demos 2007); The case for a national security strategy (Demos 2007); The Business of Resilience: Corporate Security for the 21st century (Demos 2006), Closing the Gap: Creating a shared vision of security sector reform (Demos 2006), and A Force for Change: Policing 2020 (Demos 2006).
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