James Gow
Professor of International Peace and Security
Co-Director, International Peace and Security Programme
King’s College, London

James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security and Co-Director of International Peace and Security Programme at King’s College in London.  He joined King's in 1990. From 1991 to 1997, he was responsible for a number of EC-funded projects on Security and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 1994 and 1998, served as an expert advisor and an expert witness for the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where he was involved in establishing subject matter jurisdiction and was the first witness to give evidence in the Trial Chamber and the first person ever to give evidence at an international criminal tribunal. In 1997-1998, he was one of three academics appointed to the Expert Panel advising the then-UK Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt. Hon. George Robertson, during the Ministry of Defence's Strategic Defence Review, and he contributed to work on the 1999-2000 Strategic Context Paper under the current UK Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt. Hon. Geoff Hoon.

Professor Gow was a visiting fellow at LISD while still a program under the Center of International Studies at Princeton University.  He has held other visiting positions in the U.S. at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C., and the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.  He was Reviews Editor for International Peacekeeping between 1994 and 1997 and is a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Genocide Research.