Biographies of Conference Directors and Chief Executive

Mark Smith
Programme Director and member of Wilton Park Academic Staff from August 2006. Studied Politics at the University of East Anglia (BA Hons), and International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth (MSC Econ Strategic Studies and PhD). Previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, as lecturer in International Security at the University of Southampton, and as Research Fellow at Swansea University. Special interests include missile proliferation, counter-proliferation strategies on WMD, the transatlantic alliance, and British nuclear history. Author of NATO Enlargement During the Cold War: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance (Palgrave, 2000) and co-author of Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath (Palgrave, 2006). He has also written a number of articles on missile proliferaton.