Our Trustees

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Professor Michael Clarke was Director General of the Royal United Services Institute from 2015-2017. Prior to that he was Professor of Defence Studies at King’s College London, and Deputy Vice Principal for Research Development. He remains a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and also at the University of Exeter.

He has been a Specialist Advisor to a number of Parliamentary Select Committees, most notably the House of Commons Defence Committee from 1997-2019, and the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy from 2016-2024. He has also served on the Prime Minister’s Security Forum and the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel. In 2014-15 he chaired the Independent Surveillance Review on Behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister.

He is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a Fellow of King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Since 2022 he has been Defence and Security Analyst for Sky News.

Jill Manthorpe, CBE, is Emerita Professor of Social Work at King's College London. She was Director of the NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Policy Research Unit and King’s for over 20 years, where her work spanned the activities of several government departments. She has long-standing interests in education, safeguarding, socio-welfare law and practice, and research capacity  building in the UK and globally. She has been a non-executive director of NHS Trusts and Trustee of several voluntary sector organisations focussing on housing, welfare, disability and research. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sunderland, is Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and Queen’s University Belfast, and was SR Nathan Visiting Professor at the University of Singapore.

Her recent research has addressed making the most of data in public services, the prevention of modern slavery, the representation of social problems, and the potential for former armed service personnel to work in the care sector. She provides consultancy to local authorities and advice to universities in the UK and globally. She advises research funding panels across the UK, Europe, Arabia and Southeast Asia.  

Peter Lloyd is a retired senior police officer with over 30 years’ experience in assessing and managing intelligence from a multitude of sources, with a particular focus on communications, technical and sensitive techniques.

Peter was responsible for establishing Police Scotland’s Internet Investigations Unit, the first of its type in  the UK. He created and implemented the UK Law Enforcement’s policy for Internet Intelligence & Investigations. Peter has been involved at national level, developing strategy and capability for Open Source and online investigative techniques for over 12 years.

Since retiring from the Police Peter has continued to support national  projects to improve capabilities for online investigators. Peter is also a co-founder of Numitor Ltd, an Edinburgh based startup company which specialises in developing easy to use, cost effective data  analysis and visualisation solutions.   

Peter is a senior researcher at Ridgeway, focusing on non-proliferation and regional security in the Middle East.

Before moving to London in 2016, Peter spent 11 years as an officer in the Australian Navy during which he completed a series of sea postings on a variety of vessels, qualifying as a maritime warfare officer in 2009 before going on to specialise as a hydrographic surveyor in 2010. Highlights of his time in the navy include leading a survey mission to Antarctica; a secondment with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as the Deputy Operations Manager for the search for MH370; and, deploying to the Middle East as the personal aide to Australia’s regional commander.

Peter is a Fellow of the N Square Innovators Network, a US-based cross-sector collaboration aimed at developing new approaches to non-proliferation. He holds a Master of Arts in Strategy and Security from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Arts in Geopolitics from King’s College London where he is currently undertaking a part time PhD. His doctoral research is focused on the use of narrative theory in political geography.