Expertise:
•   European Security Policy
•   Defence Policy
•   NATO

Julian Lindley-French is Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy, Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden and Senior Associate Fellow of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.  He is also an Advisor to General Sir David Richards, Chief of the General Staff and Head of the Commander’s Initiative Group (CIG) for NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC). A member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Atlantic Council of the US in Washington he was formerly a Course Director at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and European Co-Chair of the US-European Working Group on Stabilization and Reconstruction Missions for CSIS and is currently Project Leader for the Atlantic Council’s Stratcon 2010 project on the NATO Strategic Concept.