Researcher
Roderick Parkes has worked for national and international think tanks across Europe over the past two decades.
The focus of his research has been non-state threats and hybrid warfare, the management of international flows and the protection of critical infrastructure, crisis response and the geopolitical drivers behind internal security threats.
He has managed large-scale research projects and has extensively applied methodologies of strategic foresight.
Before joining the NATO Defense College, Dr. Parkes was the deputy director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin and led its Alfred von Oppenheim Centre on the Future of Europe.
A British national, Roderick studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Bonn.