Libra Advisory Group Team

Andrew Rathmell

Andrew Rathmell is a director of Libra Advisory Group.  He is a practitioner and scholar who has managed security sector development programmes, has planned and reviewed stabilisation and reconstruction missions, has led interdisciplinary research projects and has developed new perspectives on corporate risk management. 

Since 2003, Andrew’s key activities have included serving as the chief planner for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; director of a UK-funded programme to rebuild the Iraqi interior ministry; lead consultant on a World Bank review of Governance capacity building in Iraq; an advisor to the UK’s Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit; and member of the US Government’s Iraq Joint Strategic Assessment Team.

While his recent work has focused on stabilisation and reconstruction operations, Andrew’s research and consultancy career began with a focus on Middle Eastern security issues and terrorism and has included applied analysis in areas such as space-based surveillance systems, computational fraud detection, intelligence management models, and performance measurement for post-conflict stabilisation missions.  His work on corporate risk included founding and leading the Information Assurance Advisory Council, a UK public-private partnership dedicated to improving management of information risks.

Until 2006, Andrew was director of RAND Europe’s Defence and Security research programme.  In this role he managed studies for European and US governments on Stabilisation and Reconstruction operations, homeland security, counter-terrorism and Critical Infrastructure Protection.  Before he joined RAND in 2001, Andrew was Senior Lecturer in War Studies at King’s College London and director of the International Centre for Security Analysis.  His early career included holding a Research Fellowship at Exeter University, editing the Gulf States Newsletter and working as a journalist.

Andrew holds a PhD from London University and an MA from Balliol College Oxford.  He also studied at George Washington University and in Damascus.  In 2004, he was awarded the United States Medal for Valor and in 2007 received a US Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service.

Publications include:

  • Fixing Iraq’s Internal Security Forces: Why is Reform of the Ministry of Interior so Hard?
  • U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment
  • Developing Iraq’s Security Sector: The Coalition Provisional Authority’s Experience
  • Establishing Law and Order After Conflict
  • Planning Post-conflict Reconstruction in Iraq: What Can we Learn?
  • National Security Decision-Making Structures and Security Sector Reform
  • Intelligence and Security Legislation for Security Sector Reform
  • The UN’s Role in Nation-Building
  • America’s Role in Nation-Building
  • A New Persian Gulf Security System
  • Handbook of Legislative Procedures of Computer and Network Misuse in EU Countries
  • Securing the Information Society:  A European Policy Agenda
  • Engaging the Board: Corporate Governance & Information Risk
  • The Role of Space-Based Surveillance in Gulf Security

Major Projects led:

  • Iraqi Ministry of Interior reform programme (UK Department for International Development)
  • Governance and Public Management in Iraq (World Bank)
  • Development of Planning and Lessons Learning Systems (UK Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit)
  • Office of Policy Planning & Analysis (Coalition Provisional Authority)
  • Information Risks for the Financial Sector (Department of Trade & Industry)
  • Dependability Development Support Initiative (European Commission)
  • Analysis & Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Protection (European Commission)
  • Strategic Defence Review (Greek Ministry of Defence)
  • Computational Immunology for Fraud Detection (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council)
  • Early Warning Methodologies for Information Assurance (Economic & Social Research Council)

Other Distinctions:

  • Recipient of major grants and awards from research councils (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic & Social Research Council), UK government (Department for International Development, Department of Trade & Industry, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Home Office, National Criminal Intelligence Service) & international bodies (NATO, US Army, Office of Naval Research)
  • Specialist advisor to UK House of Commons Defence Committee and member of the Unisys Public Sector Board of Advisors.
  • On the editorial board of leading scholarly journals (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Information, Communication and Society; Civil Wars)

Click here for a complete list of Andrew Rathmell's publications (PDF)

Directors and Senior Advisors (click for more information):

Piet Biesheuvel, Rohan Burdett, Peter Wilson and Alex Martin
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