A former UK chief police officer, Douglas Brand has extensive experience in international policing, security, anti-terrorism, stabilization, and rule of law. His recent background includes 3 years as strategic adviser on policing to the Inspector General of the National Police Service of Kenya.  

He has been an active member of a multi continent, 4-year EU research programme led by NMBU university in Norway, to which he has contributed papers and has engaged in developments of IT and Community Policing initiatives as part of the Police Experts Network.  

His previous international experience includes chief police advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and the FCO in London, head of the EU police support action to the African Union mission in Darfur, and director of training for the security forces in the West Bank.  He also advised on various police reform issues in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Syria.  As a serving officer, he pioneered the concept of community safety partnership policing in the City of Sheffield, England, an initiative that contributed to legislative change to make partnership policing a requirement in national law.    

He holds an honours degree in history from London University and a master’s degree in Applied Criminology from Cambridge University.  He supervised master’s degree students at Leicester University for 4 years and is currently pursuing doctoral research on police reform at the University of Oxford. 

In 2004, for his work in Iraq, he was honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as an officer of the Order of the British Empire, (OBE).