Paul Schulte is a retired senior British career civil servant, now active in academia and various think tanks. During his career with the UK Defence Ministry, he worked on a broad range of issues, including on Internal Security and Counter Terrorism, Human Rights and Economic Development in the Northern Ireland Office, and Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Conventional Arms Control. He was MODUK Director of Proliferation and Arms Control, ex officio British Commissioner on the two UN Commissions for Iraqi Disarmament (UNSCOM and UNMOVIC), Director of Defence Organisation for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, founding Head of the U.K.’s Interdepartmental Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit, and Chief MoD Speechwriter for two Defence Secretaries. He was later a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research and Assessment Group of the UK Defence Academy and at the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program. He is currently an Honorary Professor at Birmingham University, a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security King’s College London, a founding member of Earendel Associates in the UK, and an active contributor to the Alphen Group of multinational strategic experts. He gained a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics, graduated from the Senior Officers Long International Security Course at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, achieved, after active clinical practice, a Professional Diploma in Group Analytic Psychotherapy from the London Centre for Psychotherapy, and completed an International Fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Centre.