Matthew Hefler

Dr. Matthew Hefler is a Senior Reseach Fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication at the Stockholm School of Economics and Project Lead of the Ax:son Johnson Institute Intelligence and Security Programme. He is a specialist of international history and intelligence history. He received his PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Hefler is an Affiliate at the Centre for Grand Strategy and a Member of the Board of the Society for Intelligence History. His writing can be found in Intelligence and National Security and Engelsberg Ideas. He is editor and a contributor for the collection Intelligence and Contemporary Conflict: Communication in Diplomacy, Statecraft and War. His first monograph, Churchill and de Gaulle: Secret Intelligence and the Failure of Franco-British Relations, is forthcoming. In 2021 he served as Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.