Dr. Robert Dover is Associate Professor of Intelligence and International Security at the University of Leicester, a post he has held since 2016. Before that he was a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Associate Dean and Institute Director at Loughborough University, and also held fulltime posts at King’s College London, and the University of Bristol. He has published widely on governmental usage of intelligence, intelligence practice, foreign policy, and the hybridisation of threats. His latest book on the impact of the digital age on intelligence is due to be published in the winter of 2020.