Stuart Dee is a research leader at RAND Europe and co-Director of the RAND Europe Centre for Defence Economics & Acquisition (CDEA). He focuses primarily on defence capability and acquisition across major UK and European programmes and is a regular speaker on these topics across Europe.
At RAND, he has led large studies in the UK Submarines industrial base and in relation to AUKUS Pillars I & II, as well as having had involvement in a wide-ranging body of work in relation to Ukraine's defence capabilities. He is currently leading large studies on the strategic stability implications of new defence technologies alongside a long-term project which assesses the future operational advantage potential of defence technologies for the UK Ministry of Defence.
He joined RAND after spending over a decade in industry, most recently at Rolls-Royce plc, where he was involved in a number of large defence programmes, including Eurofighter Typhoon, the Future Combat Air System and AUKUS. He has also spent time as a secondee into UK Government, working on export and industrial strategy policy and previously sat on Government working groups on defence exports and industrialisation.
He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in politics with international relations and is a Ph.D. Candidate at the UK Defence Academy, focusing on the multidimensional nature of national security and its application through defence-industrial collaboration. He was previously a delegate to the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the UK Defence Academy and is a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS).
B.Sc. in politics with international relations, University of Bath; Ph.D. Candidate in defence & security, Cranfield University
