Professor Dan Plesch is Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London where he leads the project on a Strategic Concept for the Removal of Arms and Proliferation and is a ‘door tenant’ at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row, in London engaging in work on war crimes. He has researched arms control and disarmament since the 1980s and founded the British American Security Information Council in 1986, an NGO engaging NATO policy and in coalitions for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, a permanent Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons. Professor Plesch’s books include: Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google, The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace: Money, Power and Mayhem in the Twenty-first Century (2004), America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace (2010) and  Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes (2017) and a New History of UN Women.  His most recent publication Master’s of the Air: Strategic Stability and Conventional Strikes made the news around the world.  He is also a specialist on war crimes issues and a member of the barristers’ chambers at 9 Bedford Row and a fellow of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law in London.