I’m the Military Analyst for the BBC’s Security Brief and an Advisor to Nordic Air Defence, a Swedish defence-tech startup building drone missile interceptors. I spent my first career chapter — 20 years — flying assault helicopters in support of UK Special Forces operations and leading operational and strategic planning in the Joint environment, with operational tours in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Iraq, and strategy and diplomacy postings in Afghanistan, post-tsunami Sumatra, India, and Africa. I rose to Senior Officer status and finished my military career as an advisor within the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

I’m also an award-winning Director — The Wheelchair Mafia (2023) won at the Toronto Documentary Feature and Short Film Festival. From 2020 to 2024, I worked with GE Healthcare as a correspondent and filmmaker on global COVID and healthcare stories, deploying solo across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and India to film, mix, script, and edit 100+ short docs over 4 seasons.

As a correspondent, host, camera operator, writer, and editor, I’ve covered national security, aviation, med-tech, science, mental health, politics, conservation, religion, and energy for BBC, CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, National Geographic, History Channel, Travel Channel, and Vogue. Recent fieldwork spans India, Iraq, Siberia, South Africa, Peru, Nicaragua, Namibia, Vietnam, Colombia, Japan, Kenya, Ethiopia, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Europe, and the U.S. including Alaska.