SESSION 3A:
Historiography of Women in Intelligence

The Fellowship Auditorium

• Clare Mulley
  Clare Mulley, FRHistS, is an award-winning author and broadcaster, primarily focused on female experience during the Second World War.
  Clare’s books include Agent Zo, about the only woman to reach Britain as an emissary of the Polish Home Army, carrying military intelligence, and then parachute back to occupied-Poland; The Women Who Flew for Hitler, telling the remarkable story of Nazi Germany’s only two female test pilots, one of whom tried to save Hitler’s life while the other tried to kill him; The Spy Who Loved about Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’, the Polish-born British special agent Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville; and The Woman Who Saved The Children, the inspiring story of Eglantyne Jebb, the controversial founder of Save the Children. All are widely translated. Clare writes and reviews for journals including the Spectator, TLS and BBC History Magazine, and has judged several national non-fiction book prizes. A frequent contributor to TV, including the BBC’s Rise of the Nazis, Newsnight and The One Show, and many series for Channel 5, Channel 4, the History Channel and Sky, and radio including Today, Women’s Hour and PM, she is also popular on podcasts such as History Hit and We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Clare is a recipient of the Bene Merito cultural honour of the Republic of Poland, and the Daily Mail Biographers Club Prize. She lives in Essex with the sculptor Ian Wolter, too many books, and a hairy lurcher who needs more baths. www.claremulley.com

• Berry Burnett
  Berenice (Berry) Burnett is a doctoral candidate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Berry began her career in museums and maintains a strong interest in how these institutions interpret history for public display. After leaving university she worked as head of research and policy analysis for an aviation security consultancy. In 2014 she became a civil servant where her roles to date have focused on national security and foreign policy. Berry holds a Master of Arts in Intelligence and Security Studies from Brunel University, London, and a Master of Arts (with Honours) in History from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Her doctoral study is focused on the civil service careers of the Cambridge Five seeking to establish how their advice in these roles shaped foreign and security policy decisions taken by Ministers between 1935-1952.

• Krystel von Kumberg
  Angelica Krystel von Kumberg is a PhD candidate in Russian History at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the history of the Cold War, political violence, intelligence, and terrorism. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Durham University (UK) and continued her education at Georgetown University, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Security Studies in May 2020 and a second Master’s in Global, International and Comparative History in May 2023. Her professional background includes roles as a research analyst in counterterrorism, a columnist for the Georgetown Security Studies Review, and as Editor-in-Chief of The Footnote, Georgetown’s history journal.

SESSION 3B:
The Covert World of SOE (Special Operations Executive) and PWE (Political Warfare Executive)

Room 2

• Kiera Fitzgerald
  Kiera Fitzgerald is PhD student in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton. Her thesis, “Literary Heritage and the Public Archives: The Diverse Women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive, F Section”, is a TECHNE/AHRC-funded
  Collaborative Doctoral Award with The National Archives. Her research sheds new light on the complex ways in which the efficacy and agency of Britain’s female Special Operations Executive F Secttion agents are constructed in history, public archives, and post-war literature including fiction, memoirs, and biographies. Kiera is also a Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London’s Centre for Holocaust Education.
• Prof James Smith and Guy Woodward
  Professor James Smith is a member of the English Department at Durham University. He is PI on the project ‘The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary’ funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He was previously PI on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’ (2018-22). His publications include British Writers and MI5 Surveillance (2013) and numerous articles and chapters on the interactions between literature, culture, and the British secret state.
  Dr Guy Woodward is Research Associate on the project ‘The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary’ at Durham University. He previously worked on the ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’ project. He is the author of the book Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War (2015) and has published articles in Literature and History, Modern Fiction Studies and the Review of English Studies.
• Prof Paulette Pepin
  Dr. Paulette Pepin holds a Ph.D. from Fordham University and is the Director of the Division of Government and Public Service and a professor in the National Security Department at the University of New Haven. She not only helped develop the new Intelligence Analysis degree, but also created several innovative courses for the degree that encompasses significant theoretical and applied analyses of intelligence and securities studies. Though Dr. Pepin, a European historian, whose earlier scholarship dealt primarily with Medieval Spain, publishing two books and peer-reviewed scholarly articles, has moved on from being a passionate reader of espionage, to historical scholarly pursuits in World War II espionage especially concerning Special Operations Executive. This led Dr. Pepin to become an active member of North American Society of Intelligence Historians, where she presented a paper, Nicolas Bodington: SOE’s Baker Street Irregular, 21 July 2023 at their annual conference which she intends to submit to a peer-reviewed journal. Bodington, an enigmatic and shadowy figure, was the Deputy Director of SOE’s F Section, and interestingly never published anything about his experiences in SOE or recorded any interviews for posterity. Therefore, Dr. Pepin’s research goal is to complete a biography of Nicolas Bodington exploring his life and most importantly to evaluate the validity of the various alleged conspiratorial allegations against him that have manifested themselves since SOE was disbanded in 1946.

SESSION 3C:
Early Aspects of Intelligence

Room 6

• Dr Tony Cowan
  Dr Tony Cowan was awarded his PhD by King’s College London.  His book Holding Out: The German Army and Operational Command in 1917 was published by Cambridge University Press last year.  He has lectured and written about German higher-level command in the First World War including its use of intelligence, regional identities in the German army, the development of German defensive tactics and the state of the army at the end of 1916.  He co-edited a translation of the German official monograph on the battle of Amiens, and he was one of the historians on the British Army’s major staff rides in 2016 and 2018 studying the lessons of the First World War.
• Joey Crozier
  Joey Crozier is a part-time PhD candidate in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University. He completed his UG in 2019 and MA in 2020 at AU. Joey’s project explores the pivotal role of British spies throughout the era of William of Orange’s invasion and the Glorious Revolution (1687-1697). Alongside his PhD project, Joey has fortunately been able to work for the Science and Welsh Identity research project led by Professor Iwan Rhys Morus. Last year, he achieved his associate fellowship for higher education teaching and completed his first appointment as a Lecturer in the School of Art. He currently chairs AU’s History and Welsh History Postgraduate Seminars; and is director of the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (1500-1850) Conference.
• Dr Markus Pöhlmann
  Markus Pöhlmann is a historian and a senior staff member of the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr). He is the head of the ZMSBw’s First World War research unit. Dr Pöhlmann studied Modern History, English Literature, and Communication Studies in Augsburg, Galway, and Berne. His fields of research are Military History, Intelligence History, and the relation between media and the military.

SESSION 4A:
Leaky Intelligence

The Fellowship Auditorium

• Sir Dermot Turing
  Dermot Turing is the award-winning author of X, Y and Z – the real story of how Enigma was broken and has written numerous other books relating to his famous uncle Alan Turing, codebreaking and computing history.  He is also a regular speaker at historical and other events. He began writing in 2014 after a career in law, principally at the international law firm Clifford Chance. As well as writing and speaking, Dermot is a trustee of the Turing Trust and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.

• Prof James Crossland
  James Crossland is a Professor of International History at Liverpool John Moores University who specialises in the history of political violence, intelligence and international law. He is the author of Rogue Agent: From Secret Plots to Psychological Warfare, the Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockhart (Elliot & Thompson, 2024), The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism (Manchester University Press, 2023) and War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury, 1918). He is currently engaged in a Leverhulme Trust-funded project that assesses how the colonial experiences of the British intelligence community’s founders impacted on threat identification and assessment in the early 1900s.

• Dr John Fox
  John F. Fox, Jr., has been with the US Federal Bureau and Investigation since 1999 and was named FBI Historian in 2003. He was awarded a PhD in modern American history from the University of New Hampshire in 2001 and an MA in political science from Boston College in
  1993. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, the FBI’s website, and other venues. He has contributed chapters to several books and co-wrote The FBI: A Centennial History. Fox has been involved in several cooperative museum projects, including the temporary exhibit on the FBI and the media that was on display at the Newseum from June 2008 until June 2016 and the various iterations of the FBI Tour/Experience. He has appeared in many documentaries in the US and Europe, appearing on C-Span, CBS Sunday News, CNN, Netflix, and Turner Classic Movies.

SESSION 4B:
Regional Intelligence in the Middle East

Room 2

• Dr Steven Wagner
  Dr Steven Wagner is Senior Lecturer in International Security at Brunel University. He is a historian of intelligence, security, empire and the modern Middle East. Before coming to Brunel, he was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montreal. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford, and his BA and MA from the University of Calgary. Since 2007, he has been looking at declassified records in the UK, USA, and Israel which shed new light on the story of the Palestine Mandate, but also on the previously unknown role of intelligence in countering terrorism & insurgency, and in shaping British policy.
• Saoud Al Eshaq
  Saoud Al Eshaq is an independent researcher based in Qatar. Saoud graduated as an undergraduate student from Durham University, where he studied politics and theology, and is currently in the process of joining Oxford University to continue his Master’s in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Saoud has recently co-published an article examining Qatar’s foreign policy concerning the 2017 Gulf Crisis and contributed to Amwaj Media. The main interests of research concern the interplay between intelligence and diplomacy in the Middle East

SESSION 4C:
Human Agency in WW2 Intelligence

Room 6

• Prof Kathryn Barbier
  Mary Kathryn Barbier is a Professor of History at Mississippi State University, the Vice-President of the Society for Intelligence History, the Co-Director of the Second World War Research Group, North America, and a Co-Editor of War in History. In addition to editing I Worked Alone: Diary of a Double Agent in World War II Europe by Lily Sergueiew, she is the author of Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals, D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion, and numerous book chapters and articles. She is also the Co-Anthology Editor of A Cultural History of War. She earned her PhD at The University of Southern Mississippi (1998) and was awarded a John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Security Studies, Yale University (2000-2002).

• Ian Piper
  Ian Piper is a lecturer and PhD student at the University of Portsmouth and his PhD focusses on the many Chartered Accountants who served in SOE during World War Two.
• Dr Stephen Coulson
  Dr Stephen Coulson is a research fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre. Stephen is a mathematician whose main research interests are in the value of intelligence, strategic decision-making and combat modelling. A previous speaker at the OIG, he is currently writing a biography of Sir John Dill, who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1940-41.
• Colonel Polly Padden
  Polly Padden is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. Polly is completing her second year of studies in the PhD program and is interested in domestic and foreign intelligence in World War II. A retired United States Air Force officer, Polly earned her undergraduate degree from the United States Air Force Academy and holds Master of Art degrees in Land Warfare, Military Operational Art and Science, and Strategic Studies. She is a graduate of the United States Army War College and former chairman of the Department of Leadership and Strategy at the United States Air War College. Polly had several worldwide deployments, including assignments supporting Joint Special Operations Command in Bagram, Afghanistan and Baghdad, Iraq.

SESSION 5A:
Counterintelligence

The Fellowship Auditorium

• Prof Philip Davies
  Professor Philip H J Davies is Professor of Intelligence Studies and Director of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University London. He has researched and published extensively on national and defence intelligence institutions in the UK, USA, Canada, Malaysia and India. In 2010-11 he was one of the authors of the third edition of the UK joint intelligence doctrine (JDP 2-00) and the first edition of the keystone doctrine on ‘understanding’ for operational commanders (JDP 04). In 2020-22 he returned to this role as a member of the team drafting the fourth edition of JDP 2-00, during which he was especially concerned with the counterintelligence aspects of that doctrine.

• Katherine Quinlan-Flatter
  Katherine Quinlan-Flatter holds a B.Sc. Hons in German, international history, and international relations from the University of Surrey and is based in Ettlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She works as a journalist and historian, writing predominantly historical articles for regional newspapers in South Germany. Her blog “First World War Commemorate Site Ettlingen” won the e-culture prize of the technology region Karlsruhe in December 2014. Katherine holds regular talks on German military history for the Imperial War Museum, the Volksbund Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission) and the Reserves of the Bundeswehr in Karlsruhe, of which she is also a member, and has spoken at various international conferences.

• Mark Dunton
  Mark Dunton is Principal Records Specialist (Contemporary Records) at the National Archives and has written and broadcast extensively on the period. Mark joined The National Archives in 1983 and has in-depth knowledge and experience of researching public records, specialising in 20th Century Britain: Prime Minister’s Office records, Cabinet Papers, and the records of the Security Service. He has delivered a huge range of public talks, podcasts, and blog posts, and has been a key media spokesperson on the annual release of government files since 2006. In 2019 he curated a highly successful exhibition at The National Archives entitled ‘Protect and Survive’; Britain’s Cold War Revealed, which attracted over 20,000 visitors. On November 1-2, 2023, Mark attended the Prime Minister’s AI Conference at Bletchley Park where he fronted a document display including Alan Turing’s Notebook (explaining how the Enigma machine worked), a photograph of Colossus, the world’s first electronic programmable computer and a working aid used in conjunction with that amazing machine. He holds a BA Hons in History, an MA in Archives and Records Management, and an MA in War Studies

SESSION 5B:
No More Secrets: Use of Intelligence, Disclosure and Intelligence Studies

Room 2

• Elijah Woodward
  Eli Woodward is a cyber threat intelligence analyst, bagpipe player, and full-time dad and husband. He has 20 years of working experience in various government and private sector cybersecurity and law enforcement roles, and will soon be graduating with a Master’s Degree in Intelligence and Securities Studies.
• Dr Dafydd Townley
  Dr Dafydd Townley has been part of the University of Portsmouth’s Professional Military Education team at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell since 2021. Prior to this, he was part of the University of Reading’s Department of History for five years. His first monograph, The Year of Intelligence in the United States: Public Opinion, National Security, and the 1975 Church Committee, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. He has had original research articles published in the Journal of Intelligence History and Intelligence and National Security and has acted as a peer reviewer for both of these journals. His current research explores the increasing importance of cyberspace to the US executive branch from the Carter to the Biden administrations and will be the focus of his second monograph.
• Dr Tom Maguire
  Dr Thomas Maguire is an Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security in the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, and Visiting Fellow with the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL). Tom’s current primary research stream examines interactions between intelligence and propaganda in international politics, especially examining covert influence and intelligence disclosures as policy tools. This forms the basis for a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, The intelligence-propaganda nexus: British and American covert influence in Cold War Southeast Asia. It is also the thematic focus for a Dutch Government-funded research project, ‘Sharing Secrets’, for which Tom is the Principal Investigator. This examines state decision-making behind whether and how to disclose intelligence to influence external audiences, using contemporary British, Dutch, and French practices as comparative case studies.

SESSION 5C:
Intelligence in Germany after World War Two

Room 6

• Prof Rüdiger Bergien
  Rüdiger Bergien has been Professor of the History of Intelligence at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences since 2019. Previously, he researched and taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Potsdam Centre for Contemporary History and the University of Potsdam. His recent publications in the field of intelligence history include the anthology published with Debora Gerstenberger and Constantin Goschler (eds.): Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production. Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War.

• Jakob Mühle
  Jakob Mühle is a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz-Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF Potsdam) and a PhD student at the University of Potsdam. He is currently working on his dissertation entitled “The GDR in the BND’s sights. Political Espionage and Intelligence Production in the Second Half of the Cold War (1968-1990)”. Previously, he read political science, history, and contemporary history in Potsdam. He graduated in 2022 with a Master’s degree in contemporary history. He is particularly interested in the history of secret intelligence in the 20th century, the history of the Cold War and German-German relations, as well as the cultural history of politics and the history of knowledge and knowledge production.
• Prof Katrin Paehler
  Katrin Paehler is a Professor at Illinois State University. In her research and teaching she focuses on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, foreign intelligence, genocide and mass violence as well as history, memory, and representations. She is the author of The Third Reich’s Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg; co-edited A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe; and was a member of “Independent Historians Commission on the German Foreign Office and Nazism and Its Aftermath,” authoring a section of Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik. She is currently working on a book on Hildegard Beetz’ lives and careers. She has published “Gender and Espionage: Hildegard Beetz, the Ciano Affairs, and Female Agency,” in Gender and the Second World War: Lessons of War; “The Space Between: Hildegard Beetz, Espionage, and Gender, 1944-1949” in Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War, forthcoming with Fordham University Press. Paehler has also authored chapters and articles on Nazi Security and Intelligence Services, on Foreign Intelligence and the Holocaust, and on memories of World War Two, including “Breaking the Post-War Goose-Step: Three Films by Michael Verhoeven,” in Shofar. Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies and “The wrong –grad, the wrong victims: Investigating the (West-) German Historiographical Discourse on the Siege of Leningrad,” in Re-calling the Past—(Re-)Constructing the Past. Collective and Individual Memory of World War II in Russia and Germany. She is a Gubernatorial Appointee to the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission and a member of the Advisory Board of De Gruyter Studies in Military History.

SESSION 6A:
The Hunting Spree – Stories of European Espionage

The Fellowship Auditorium

• Nigel West
  Nigel West is an independent researcher who has written on security and intelligence issues and has taken a close interest in clandestine operations conducted during the Second World War and Cold War.  

• Alex Branger
  Alex Branger was born in Caracas, Venezuela. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, he is a writer, translator, filmmaker and private researcher working on a biography of his grandfather, a charter member of the CIA. 

• Dr Christian Rossé
  Dr Christian Rossé is an Associate Researcher with The Security and Defense Research Team – Intelligence, Criminality, Crisis, Cyberthreats (ESDR3C) at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris and works as a Scientific Employee with the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and UTBM, France. Dr Rossé has written two books, La guerre secrète en Suisse and Le Service de renseignements suisse face à la menace allemande, and many articles for various publications.

SESSION 6B:
Intelligence and Popular Culture

Room 2

• Prof Juliette Pattinson
  Juliette Pattinson is a Professor of War Studies at King’s College London.  Before joining King’s College, she was a Professor of History at University of Kent where she was Head of the School of History (2015-2020) and then the Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities (2022-24).  She is a socio-cultural historian with particular interests in gender and personal testimonies. Juliette has published widely on World War two, including the male and female agents of the SOE and the Jedburghs, men in reserved occupations and on masculinity and male culture more broadly, on humour, cultural memory, incarceration and Britishness. Her most recent monograph was on the formation, in 1907, and the First World War service of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Juliette’s next monograph will be on the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry members who, during World War Two, were seconded to the Special Operations Executive to serve as coders, wireless operators and secretaries in Britain, North Africa, Italy and the Far East.  
• Ashleigh Percival-Borley
  Ashleigh Percival-Borley, a British Army veteran and PhD student at Durham University, delves into the fascinating world of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) through her project, “Oral History, the British Cultural Imaginary, and the Lives of the SOE’s Amateur Agents.” This project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust is part of a larger interdisciplinary project analysing the complex ways in which the SOE has shaped public perceptions of covert action. 
• Dr Jonathan Ludwig
  Jonathan Z. Ludwig is a Teaching Professor of Russian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. In addition to teaching Russian language, literature, and culture, he has developed and taught a course titled “The Russian Spy in Fact and Fiction.” The first two-thirds of the course trace the history of Russian espionage, its institutions and activities, as portrayed in literature and film from the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, while the final third examines real-life contemporary Russian espionage activities. In addition to his teaching, he has written a section on spying in the Great Game period in his forthcoming book A Concise History of Central Asia and a book chapter on the Soviet-era Russian-language spy novel and TV series TASS is Authorized to Announce in The Cold War and Entertainment Television.

SESSION 6C:
The World of Private Sector Intelligence

Room 6

• Dr David Cox
  David J. Cox is Reader in Criminal Justice History at the University of Wolverhampton, specialising in early and pre-Metropolitan Police history. He is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and also a Co-Editor of Wolverhampton Law Journal. He teaches a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and modules at the university, and has also presented papers at over fifty academic conferences, both nationally and internationally. He has an extensive publication record, with his first major academic publication being a monograph of the history of the Bow Street Runners (‘A Certain Share of Low Cunning’)  and other publications include Crime, Regulation and Control During The Blitz [co-authored with P. Adey and B. Godfrey], Public Indecency in England 1857-1960: ‘A Serious and Growing Evil’ [with K. Stevenson, J. Rowbotham and C. Harris], and Crime in England, 1688- 1815. He also recently co-edited The Development of Transnational Policing Past, Present and Future [with J. McDaniel and K. Stonard]. His most recent coauthored publication is Penal Servitude: Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853-1948 [with H. Johnston and B. Godfrey], and he is currently researching and co-authoring a monograph on the history of policing within the UK, due for publication by Routledge in 2026/7.

• Dr Lewis Sage-Passant
  Lewis Sage-Passant is a researcher in the field of intelligence and espionage and holds a PhD from Loughborough University in intelligence studies, where his thesis examined the history, methodology, and ethics of private sector security intelligence organisations. He is an adjunct professor teaching undergraduate and Masters’ courses in intelligence and espionage in the public and private sectors at Sciences Po Paris. Outside his academic life, Lewis is the Global Head of Intelligence at the pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk. He has spent time in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions in a variety of intelligence roles, supporting the energy industry, the financial sector, and the technology field. Prior to this, Lewis served in a UK Military Intelligence role. 
• Glenn Johnston
  Glenn Johnston is the Managing Director, North America, for UK-based business intelligence and security firm Audere. He has 20 years of
  experience in the industry, including more than a decade with Kroll, a financial and risk advisory firm. He worked as a press officer for the United Nations following the Gulf War. He has a law degree from Trinity College Dublin.