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Prof. Alessio Patalano (Department of War Studies at King's College, London)

Prof. Alessio Patalano

Department of War Studies at King's College, London

Alessio Patalano is Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies (DWS), King’s College London (KCL). At KCL, Prof Patalano is the Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy (CGS), where he leads also the newly established Indo-Pacific Programme. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), a Visiting Professor at the Japan Maritime Command and Staff College (JMCSC), and an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan. In 2022, Prof Patalano became the first specialist advisor on the Indo-Pacific to the Foreign Affairs Committee in the UK Parliament. In 2023, he became also the first academic to be awarded a Commendation of the Ambassador of Japan to the UK for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of UK-Japan ties in defence and security. Prof Patalano’s latest volume, co-edited and co-authored with Catherine Grant and James Russell is "The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific" (Georgetown UP, 2023).

Richard Iron CMG OBE (President at AIIA Victoria)

Richard Iron CMG OBE

President at AIIA Victoria

Richard Iron CMG OBE is President of AIIA Victoria. He previously served in the British Army in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands, Oman, the Balkans, Sierra Leone and Iraq. He was a visiting fellow at the Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford and was lead editor of "British Generals in Blair's Wars", and "How Wars End: Theory and Practice".