A New World Order? Evie Aspinall, Sam Greene, Tom Harper and Chris Parry

Evie Aspinall is the Director of the British Foreign Policy Group, an independent, non-partisan think tank based in London which focuses on the intersection between domestic and foreign policy. Evie’s primary research interests are domestic consent for foreign policy, the UK’s role in the world and challenges posed by the UK’s strategic rivals. Evie holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MSc from King’s College London. She has previously worked at UN Women UK and the Future Leaders Network and was formerly the UK Head Delegate to the Youth7, the G7’s official youth engagement group. She also served as President of Cambridge University Students’ Union. She is a regular commentator in the media on issues pertinent to UK foreign policy.

Sam Greene is Professor in Russian politics at King’s College London. Prior to moving to London in 2012 to join King’s, he lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, most recently as Director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School, and as Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. With Graeme Robertson, he co-authored Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale University Press, 2019). Sam is also the author of Moscow in Movement: Power & Opposition in Putin’s Russia, (Stanford University Press, 2014). He regularly contributes opinion and analysis pieces to general interest publications, such as The Washington Post, The Moscow Times, Foreign Policy, The New Statesman and others, and is a frequent commentator in British, American, Russian and European broadcast and print media. Alongside his work at King’s, Sam is an Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a Trustee of Pushkin House, and Editor-in-Chief of Russian Politics & Law.

Dr Tom Harper is a Lecturer in international relations at the University of East London (UEL). His PhD at the University of Surrey was on the topic of China's international relations in Africa and he has written about Chinese foreign policy in the developing world for several online platforms, including The Conversation. Prior to working at UEL, Tom taught at Neijiang Normal University in China. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and Japanese and is currently working on projects related to the Hanfu movement in China and Global Britain as a foreign policy concept.

Rear Admiral Chris Parry is a strategic forecaster, broadcaster and best-selling author, who was mentioned in dispatches during the Falklands War for disabling an enemy submarine and rescuing 16 SAS from a glacier in South Georgia. After reading Modern History at Jesus College Oxford, Chris spent 36 years in the Royal Navy as an aviator and warfare officer.  He commanded the destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER, the Amphibious Assault Ship HMS FEARLESS, the UK's Amphibious Task Group and the Maritime Warfare Centre.  He also had five Joint appointments with responsibility for operational and developmental issues relating to all three Services. As well as sailing every sea, he experienced regular operational tours and combat operations in Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Falklands. As a Rear Admiral, he was responsible for determining the future strategic context for operations and leading the conceptual development of all three armed forces out to 2030. Nowadays, he runs his own strategic forecasting company, advising governments, leading commercial companies and banks about strategic issues, high-level leadership and systemic risk.   The founding Chair of the UK's Marine Management Organisation, he is an internationally recognised authority on existing and emerging aspects of the marine and maritime warfare environment.