After graduating in physics at Imperial College London, Kevin joined the Royal Navy as a maritime aviator. He operated helicopters from warships deployed in many of the world’s seas and oceans and has extensive experience as a flying instructor. In the UK Ministry of Defence, he audited Defence capabilities and advised the Defence Chiefs on strategic and operational lessons from UK military operations. In the UK Defence Academy, he developed Naval and Military officers’ skills in leadership, contextual analysis, critical thinking, and evidence-based decision making. To end over three decades of Service, Kevin was UK Defence Attaché to Brazil. His excellent diplomatic and linguistic skills, saw him successfully advance the UK-Brazil relationship in this uniquely challenging and beautiful country. Throughout his career he led people in many challenging contexts and at many different levels.
Kevin is a Maritime Situational Awareness & International Engagement expert. Passionate about safeguarding the seas and oceans, he engages worldwide, concentrating on using data to increase understanding, to enable the development of Blue Economies. He focuses on the benefits of fused any-source data, to better understand the marine space, allowing better policy decisions, leading to coherent and sustainable use whilst delivering maximum socio-economic benefit. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, in both the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies and the King’s Brazil Institute.
