Dr Hillary Briffa is a Lecturer in National Security Studies and founding member of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London, where she read for her PhD in War Studies (specialising in small state security). Previously, she taught at UCL, Birkbeck, and Queen Mary University. Beyond academia, she served as Youth Ambassador to the OSCE and worked at the Malta High Commission throughout Malta’s tenure as Commonwealth Chair-in-Office. After running peace-building projects in Eastern Europe, in 2015 she was appointed Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society, and in 2016 received the U.S. State Department’s Emerging Young Leaders award.