Dr Harold Elletson is the Director of The New Security Foundation.
A former Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (from 1992-1997), he served
as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern
Ireland in the early stages of the peace process and was also a member of
the Select Committee on Environment.
An international public affairs consultant and a fluent Russian speaker, he
has advised many leading companies on aspects of their business in the
former Soviet Union, including BP in Azerbaijan and Alstom in Siberia. He
has written widely on political and historical subjects and his first book,
The General Against the Kremlin, was published by Little Brown.