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Monday 23 February 2026, 5.00pm – 6.45pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Current Members of Parliament and St Antony’s College Visiting Parliamentary Fellows The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP and Ms Stella Creasy MP present the next in this insightful seminar series:
How AI will affect defence, foreign and security policy
What are the implications of AI for state and non-state threats, conventional and hybrid warfare, and our international relationships?
Speakers:
Pauline Neville-Jones is a Conservative member of the House of Lords where she sits on the Science and Technology Committee.
She began work in the Diplomatic Service serving in, among other places, Washington, the European Commission, as Head of the Policy Planning staff, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Bonn. She took part in the negotiations leading to German Unification and was the negotiator for the UK of the Dayton Agreement on Bosnia.
Subsequently she worked in the City and, as Chairman, prepared the government owned technology company, QinetiQ, for IPO. She designed the National Security Council which came into operation in 2010 and served as Minister of State for Security and Counterterrorism in the coalition government under Prime Minister Cameron. She is active in cyber security and resilience.
She has been a BBC Governor and a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall Oxford and has honorary degrees from London, Lancaster and Open Universities. She is a Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, a Privy Councillor and a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur.
Dr Patricia M. Lewis is an independent expert on international security, focusing primarily on arms control and disarmament and technology.
Her previous roles included: Research Director, International Security at Chatham House in London; Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies; Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); and Director of VERTIC in London. Dr Lewis served on: the 2004-6 WMD Commission, chaired by Dr. Hans Blix; the 2010-2011 Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW, chaired by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus; an Advisor to the 2008-10 International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) chaired by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi; Commissioner on the 2014-2016 Global Commission on Internet Governance chaired by Carl Bildt. She is on the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), on the Space Advisory Board for the EU Special Envoy for Space in EEAS, and she is co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
She holds a BSc (Hons) in physics from Manchester University, a PhD in nuclear physics from Birmingham University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Warwick. She was a visiting lecturer in physics at Imperial College London and was an Elizabeth Poppleton Fellow at the Australian National University She is a dual national of the UK and Ireland. Dr Lewis is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2009 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award recognizing “outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of physics” and a recipient of Ireland’s Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 2023.
Lucas Kello is the Director of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, a University-wide initiative sponsored by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).