Who We Are

We are a community of scholars who study various aspects of intelligence and international security. 

The current Director of CIISS is Dr R. Gerald Hughes, who is also UK Review Editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security.

The current co-Director of CIISS is Dr Aviva Guttmann, who is the founder and chair of the Women Intelligence Network (WIN).

The Centre hosted an inaugural seminar in July 2004, led by Michael Herman on the role of intelligence during the Iraq war.

CIISS has organised various conferences, symposia and workshops. These events have brought together academic and professional intelligence experts from across the world. Conference proceedings have been published as special issues of Intelligence and National Security (19/2, 21/5, 24/1, 27/5) and as Len Scott and Peter Jackson (eds),

Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-first Century: Journeys in Shadows (Routledge, 2004); Len Scott and R. Gerald Hughes (eds), Intelligence, Crises and Security:

Prospects and Retrospect's (Routledge, 2008); Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes and Martin S. Alexander (eds), Intelligence and International Security: New Perspectives and Agendas (Routledge, 2011).