Keir GILES is a Senior Consulting Fellow with the Europe and Russia Programme at Chatham House in London. He also works with the Conflict Studies Research Centre, a small group of subject matter experts in Eurasian security based in the UK.
He has supported Chatham House in its Russia-focused research since 2013. Previously, he worked with the BBC Monitoring Service and the UK Defence Academy, where he wrote and advised on Russian military, defence and security issues including human factors influencing Russian security policy, Russian strategy and doctrine, the Russian view of cyber and information security, and Russia's relations with its neighbours in Europe.
Keir GILES is the author of multiple publications explaining the Russian approach to warfare, including NATO's "Handbook of Russian Information Warfare" (NATO Defense College, 2016), and "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West" (Brookings, 2019), an examination of the persistent factors causing relations with Russia to fall into crisis. He analysed consistent patterns of Western success and failure in deterring Russian aggression in "What Deters Russia" (Chatham House, September 2021), and the human impact of Russia's campaigns to acquire power and influence around the world in "Russia's War on Everybody" (Bloomsbury 2022).
His most recent book, published in late 2024, is "Who Will Defend Europe?" which predicted the impact on European security of a new Trump presidency and called for urgent action by European leaders to mitigate it.