Dr Alastair Masser is a communications consultant, academic, and author specialising in politics and international relations. He serves as one of four Directors at Trafalgar Strategy, providing clients with advice on issues including reputation management, crisis communications, stakeholder and media engagement, web and social media, and political advocacy.

He spent the first decade of his career in politics including serving for four years as a UK Government Special Adviser. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, examining UK-Nigerian security cooperation against Boko Haram during the period of Britain’s Coalition government between 2010 and 2015.

He teaches at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Joint Services Command Staff College (JSCSC) at Shrivenham and is co-editor of a two volume series entitled New Perspectives on Diplomacy, published by Bloomsbury in April 2021.

Research Interests

• UK foreign and security policy
• Islamist movements in the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa
• Diplomacy and security cooperation
• Gender-based violence
• Refugees and human trafficking
• Climate conflict in fragile states