John is the Founder and CEO of SAGE International and has expertise in defence acquisition, asymmetric warfare and international relations. He has worked as a Senatorial adviser, a military adviser for the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) and a defence consultant to a number of Australian blue-chip companies. He also writes for Jane’s Intelligence Review (UK) having contributed to Jane’s products since 2002. A Non-Resident Fellow at Emirati think tank Trends Research & Advisory, he is a former Army Reservist in the Armoured Corps, and was also a long-time member of the Royal United Services Institute of Australia (1992-2019) and served as National Director between 2015 and 2019. Since 2015, John hosts SAGE International’s podcast STRATEGIKON and recently hosted a current affairs program for Radio Adelaide, The Focus – now a SAGE International podcast. He holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales – Australian Defense Force Academy, and a Masters by research in military sociology, Honours and Bachelor of Arts from Flinders University.