Professor Jeremy Black

Professor Jeremy Black is a key thinker about the role of strategy in the modern age, one who brings in not only historical perspectives but also an active engagement with geopolitical issues. Born in London, he studied at Cambridge, where he graduated with a starred first, and then Oxford, before being a Professor at first Durham and then Exeter. He has lectured extensively on strategy for military institutions in America, Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore, and also for many businesses. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, US. He has served on the Council of the British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the List and Index Society (from 1997). He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (now the RUSI Journal). He has authored over 150 publications, many focused on international relations, British foreign policy and geopolitics.