Chris Abbott is a freelance writer and researcher. He is an honorary Sustainable Security Consultant at Oxford Research Group, and was our Deputy Director and Director of our sustainable security programme until June 2009 (and remains on the programme's International Advisory Board). During his time at ORG he founded SustainableSecurity.org and was the author or co-author of numerous sustainable security publications, including An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change, Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World and Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century. Throughout 2008, he was an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol. Chris has a degree in Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews.