In the period 1981-2009 Michael Crawford served the British Government overseas in Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Poland, and Pakistan and worked on global issues, the Middle East, proliferation, terrorism and security in London. He was awarded a CMG in 2008. He previously took a First in Jurisprudence at University Colleage, Oxford, qualified at the Bar, gained an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s, Oxford, and worked in a commercial law firm in the Gulf. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Near Eastern Department, Princeton University September-December 2009 and a Consulting Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies for a year from January 2010. He is currently a senior global advisor at Oxford Analytica, and runs his own consultancy business. He has published on Saudi Arabia, proliferation, and non-state actors.

(Current as of October 2011)