Dr. Mark Hilborne

Biography

Mark Hilborne joined King’s Defence Studies Department at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in September 2004, having spent a brief period in the Air Power Studies Division as Assistant Head and Director of Research and Teaching. He returned to the Staff College in April 2008. Prior to coming to King's, he was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a Visiting Researcher at the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. He received his PhD in International Relations from Cambridge University in 2000 and holds an M.Phil from Cambridge and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. His research focuses on strategic stability, deterrence, and arms control, with an emphasis on nuclear weapons in outer space. In 2014, he established the Space Security Research Group to further the understanding of security issues pertaining to the space domain. In addition to his work in the Defence Studies Department, Mark has taught the MA in Air Power in the Modern World for nine years and has served as Chair of the Exam Board for four years.

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