Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Professor Malcolm Chalmers is Research Director and Director (UK Defence Policy) at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He is a Special Adviser to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, and was a member of the UK Defence Secretary’s Advisory Forum for the 2010 Defence Green Paper. He was previously an FCO Special Adviser to Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw MP and Margaret Beckett MP. Professor Chalmers has given oral evidence on the defence implications of Scotland's independence to the House of Commons Defence, Foreign Affairs and Scottish Affairs Committees. He has published widely on the defence policy dimensions of Scottish independence.