Dean Godson
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Dean Godson is director of Policy Exchange, a United Kingdom think-tank.[1]. He joined Policy Exchange in 2005 and ran its security research until becoming Director in 2013.[2]
Background
Dean Godson attended St Paul's School and is a graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
During the 1980s, Godson was Research Assistant to Sir Ray Whitney, MP for Wycombe. He also held the position of Assistant to Hon John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy, Washington DC, and was a Research Fellow at both the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies.
From 1990–92, Godson worked as Librarian to Sir James Goldsmith.
From 1992–1995, he worked for The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as an obituary writer, leader writer and feature writer. From 1995–2004, he was Chief Leader Writer of The Daily Telegraph, writing largely about mainland domestic politics and Northern Ireland.
From 1997–2004, he also worked as Associate Editor of The Spectator under Boris Johnson’s editorship (before the latter became Mayor of London), was a Contributing Editor for Prospect magazine and a Consultant Editor on the New York Sun.
Parliament
In his political career, Godson stood as candidate in Great Grimsby in 1997 and served as Deputy Chairman of Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association from 1995–98.
Author
Godson is author of Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism[3] (Harper Collins, 2004) which was short listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. Andrew Marr called it "a great act of political reporting – instant history, if you like – about the drama of Northern Ireland's search for peace".[4] He was a visiting Professor at the University of Ulster.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Herzliya Conference/2007 | 21 January 2007 | 24 January 2007 | Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University | "The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action." |
| Herzliya Conference/2009 | 2 February 2009 | 4 February 2009 | Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University |
References
- ↑ Dean Godson, "You'll never guess who's to blame for 7/7", The Times, 13-December-2005, Accessed 24-April-2009
- ↑ "Dean Godson Director Policy Exchange"
- ↑ Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2011
- ↑ "Ulster's tough man" (Andrew Marr reviews Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism by Dean Godson), The Daily Telegraph, 27 June 2004
