Trevor Taylor Professorial Fellow in Defence Management, Royal United Services Institute

Trevor Taylor is Professorial Fellow in Defence Management at the Royal United Services Institute, where he has worked for more than a decade, dealing particularly with defence acquisition and MoD relationships with the private sector. Prior to that, he was for 12 years Head of the Department of Defence Management & Security Analysis for Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the UK, where, among other work, he was involved in the implementation of the Smart Procurement Initiative. He has an extensive publications record, with multiple items on the RUSI website (www.rusi.org), and regularly provides invited evidence to parliamentary committees. He has a BSc (Econ) and a PhD from the London School of Economics, and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.