Dr Terence McNamee is the Deputy Director of The Brenthurst Foundation. Dr McNamee previously served as Director of Publications at The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in London and Editor of its flagship publication, the RUSI Journal.
He was educated at universities in Canada and the United Kingdom. In 2002, He received a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. The subject of his doctoral thesis was South Africa's nuclear weapons programme. He has been a writer and consultant on various projects in the areas of peace-building, post-conflict reconstruction and economic development. With the Brenthurst Foundation, he has conducted research and participated in high-level initiatives in all regions of Africa as well as the Middle East and South East Asia. From 2008-09 he was the Delegate to Commissioner Dr Greg Mills on the Government of Denmark's Africa Commission and assisted in the drafting of the Commission's Final Report, Realising the Potential of Africa's Youth.
He is widely published in academic journals and newspapers in the US, UK, Australia, Singapore and South Africa, and has completed country-level analyses for governmental and commercial clients on issues ranging from citizenship and immigration policy to security sector reform. His recent publications include War Without Consequences: Iraq's Insurgency and the Spectre of Strategic Defeat ([Editor], 2008). McNamee is writer and historian of the acclaimed photographic history of the twentieth century, Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Suffering, Regression and Hope (Phaidon Press, 1999, conceived and edited by Bruce Bernard), which won the British Book Awards for Illustrated Book of the Year, France Info's Special Award for Photojournalism and a Merit Award from the New York Art Director's Club. For the same publisher he was also co-writer on Decade: Transition and Turmoil (2010). He is co-Editor of the forthcoming book On the Faultline: Managing tensions and divisions within societies (Profile Books, 2012).
Dr Terence McNamee
