Professor Sir Hew Strachan
Professor Sir Hew Strachan has been Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College since 2002, and was Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War between 2003 and 2012. He also serves on the Strategic Advisory Panel of the Chief of the Defence Staff and on the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board. In 2010 he chaired a task force on the implementation of the Armed Forces Covenant for the Prime Minister and is a specialist adviser to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. Professor Strachan has published widely in the fields of military history, strategic studies and defence policy. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow.