Ann Fitz-Gerald

Ann Fitz-Gerald "is a Senior Reader in Cranfield University 's Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis and the Associate Dean (Research). She holds degrees in Commerce, International Relations, Security Studies and Defence Management and Security Analysis (DMSA). Her PhD examined the impact national disparities with multinational military forces could have on sustainable development programmes running simultaneously with peace support operations in post-conflict states. Following an initial career in the financial sector, she held posts at the Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Centre and NATO Headquarters in Brussels. After leaving policy for academia, she joined King's College, London University as a research programme manager in the Centre for Defence Studies with a move two years later to the academic staff within DMSA at Cranfield University.

"She is currently a Board member for the Institute for Research on Public Policy and Special Adviser for Foreign Policy for the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS). Ann has worked on national security and security sector management issues for 14 years and is widely published in this field. Her most recent book is an edited volume entitled From Conflict to Community: A Combatant's Return to Citizenship. Ann has worked in both research and practitioner capacities in Africa, Asia, South-East Europe and the Caribbean. She led the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) between 2002-2006 and has project-managed a number of other UK Government projects including Securing Humanitarian Space, the Development of Performance-based-metrics for evaluating humanitarian and development programmes, Evaluating the impact of defence education programmes on joined-up government conflict prevention objectives and a FCO-funded project on Failed and Collapsed States."