Director of Editorial; Editor of Strategic Survey; Editor of Strategic Comments
Main responsibilities: Alexander Nicoll is Director of Editorial at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is Editor of the IISS publication Strategic Survey: the Annual Review of World Affairs, and of the online publication Strategic Comments. .
After joining the Directing Staff of the IISS in 2003, Alex led the IISS European Capabilities Project, seeking new ways to define and analyse military capabilities in the light of modern missions. With Bastian Giegerich, he co-authored the IISS Strategic Dossier ‘European Military Capabilities: Building Armed Forces for Modern Operations’, published in 2008. He co-edited Adelphi Paper 400–401: Perspectives on International Security: Speeches and Papers from the 50th Anniversary Year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2009-2010, Alex headed an IISS programme on Economics and Conflict Resolution.
Alex has written on the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, including ‘Out of Balance: The Fragile World Economy’, with Stephen Fidler, in Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, December 2010, and ‘The Importance of the Financial Crisis’, in Survival, December 2008, as well as several Strategic Comments.
Background: Alex was previously a journalist at the Financial Times newspaper, where he was Defence Correspondent from 1997 to 2002. Previously, he had been the FT’s Asia Editor and also spent three years on secondment to New Delhi as Consulting Editor of Business Standard, India’s second largest business newspaper. Among other positions at the FT, he was Euromarkets Editor, UK News Editor and International Edition Editor. During his earlier career with Reuters news agency, he was a correspondent in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Tehran and New York. He is a graduate of St John’s College, Oxford and was Editor of the student magazine Isis.
Joined IISS: January 2003
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