Consulting Senior Fellow
Expertise :
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South Asia
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Iraq
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Nuclear strategic matters
Background: Hilary Synnott was the Coalition Provisional Authority’s Regional Coordinator for Southern Iraq from July 2003 until January 2004, the British High Commissioner in Pakistan from 2000 until 2003 and Deputy High Commissioner in India from 1993 to 1996. In 1999 he published Adelphi Paper 322, The Causes and Consequences of South Asia’s Nuclear Tests. He was Director for South and South East Asian affairs at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1996 until 1998. He has also served in Amman, Paris and Bonn.
Before joining the British Diplomatic Service, he spent 11 years in the Royal Navy where he was a submariner. He has a MA from Cambridge University where he studied electrical engineering.
Joined IISS: July 2004
Contact: Click here to email Sir Hilary Synnott KCMG
Publications:
Transforming Pakistan: Ways out of instability - Adelphi 406 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2009; Abingdon: Routledge, 2009)
'What is Happening in Pakistan' Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol 51, no 1, February–March 2009
'Bad Days in Basra' Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol 50, no 4, August 2008
Bad Days in Basra. (London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2008)
'State-building in Southern Iraq' Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol 47, no 2 - Summer 2005
The Causes and Consequences of South Asia’s Nuclear Tests - Adelphi 332 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1999 and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
'The Second Asia-Europe Summit' Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, 1998
Contributions to Strategic Survey
