Kristian Gustafson

Qualifications

• PhD (Cantab)

Personal Biography

Dr. Gustafson is the deputy Director of BCISS and is the Director of our very successful MA in Intelligence and Security Studies. Having served ten years as an officer in the Canadian army, he left the service in 2001 to begin his second profession as a scholar of intelligence. After an MA at the University of Alberta, Canada, he moved to the UK to take his PhD at Downing College, Cambridge. Before coming to Brunel, Dr. Gustafson was senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Research Overview

Dr. Gustafson focuses on research in the history and practice of intelligence. One of his early articles, published in Studies in Intelligence, won in 2003, the CIA’s “Walter L. Pforzheimer Award” for outstanding contribution to the history of intelligence. His first book, Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964–1974 (2007) is published by Potomac Books, Washington, D.C. Recent articles have looked at covert action (history and management), horizon scanning, and the relationship of culture to intelligence. Dr. Gustafson has conducted consultancy and advisory work for the MOD's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC), Land Warfare Centre, and for the Strategic Horizons Unit at the Cabinet Office.

Deputy Director, Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)

Recently Completed Projects

ICEX (Insituto de Comercio Exterior), CITEX: Competitive Intelligence in Trade and Export. Madrid: ICEX. (contributor)
2011

British Academy
Covert action, the CIA-DoD divide
£6,350
2008 - 2010

PhD Supervision

Joe Eshun: Intelligence in Ghana

Peter Roberts: The Sri Lankan war

Andrew Brunatti: Comparative intelligence structures in Britain, Canada and Australia

Wouter Vlegels: NATO Cyber Strategy

Kathrin Herbst: AFRICOM

Undergraduate Programmes

Module convenor

• Introduction to World Politics

Module contributor

• Intelligence and Security Studies

Postgraduate Programmes

Programme convenor

• MA Intelligence and Security Studies

Module convenor

• Intelligence History: Success and Failure

Module contributor

• Threats and Analysis

• Politics Touch-Point Team Leader
• P&H Web Officer