Brendan Simms is the founder and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics. He works on European geopolitics, past and present, and his principal interests are the German Question, Britain and Europe, Hitler’s global anti-semitism, Humanitarian Intervention and state construction.

He teaches at both undergraduate and graduate level in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS); he also supervises history undergraduates at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His MPhil courses on the History of European Geopolitics use scenarios as part of the teaching and learning process. He has supervised PhD dissertations on subjects as diverse as Intervention and State Sovereignty in the Holy Roman Empire, Sinn Fein, the American colonists and the eighteenth-century European state system, the Office of the UN High Representative in Bosnia, and German Civil-Military relations. Professor Simms is a frequent contributor to print and broadsheet media.

He has advised governments and parliaments, and spoken at Westminster, in the European Parliament (Brussels) and at think-tanks in the United Kingdom, the United States and in many Eurozone countries. The Centre for Geopolitics is designed to draw together all these interests. Learn more.

Niamh Gallagher is Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History. Her first book, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History (Bloomsbury, 2019) won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. She is co-editor of The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution with Richard Bourke (forthcoming, CUP) and has written on the cultural and social history of the First World War. Niamh has appeared regularly on media, most recently on Michael Portillo's documentary, Partition, 1921. She is a member of the Independent Historical Advisory Panel for Northern Ireland and contributor to the President of Ireland's Machnamh 100 series. Niamh leads The Mether Initiative at St Catharine's College.

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy. She has been at Cambridge since 1994 and is at present Deputy Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a regular panelist on Talking Politics.

Helen’s present work is focused on the historical origins of the post-2008 economic and political world and the crises it is generating for western countries. More particularly her recent work covers the political economy of oil, Brexit and the euro zone crisis.

Lord Bew is Emeritus Professor of Irish Politics in Queen's University Belfast. Lord Bew has long been a distinguished scholar of Irish politics and history, even serving as a historical adviser to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in 1998–2001. He has published numerous well-known works, including The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement (2007), Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006 (2009), and Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell (2011), which was named by the Sunday Times as a biography of the year. His latest monograph is Churchill and Ireland (2016). Lord Bew is also a life peer in the House of Lords, and currently serves as the chair of the House of Lords Appointment Commission, having previously chaired the Committee on Standards in Public Life (2013–18).