Klaus Dodds

Professor Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and the Faculty Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Middlesex University London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe. In 2026, he was appointed to Royal Navy Visiting Fellow.

He completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 1994 and has held visiting fellowships at St Cross College and St Johns College University of Oxford and been a visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw. In the last decade, he served as a specialist adviser to the UK Houses of Parliament, NATO’s Strategic Foresight Analysis, European Parliament, and a suite of commercial companies working in oil, gas, insurance and shipping.

He has published many books and edited collections with the latest being Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic (with Mia Bennett, Yale University Press 2025) and Border Wars (Penguin 2022).