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Dr Mathew George
Programme Director
Dr Mathew George
Dr Mathew George joined SIPRI in May 2023 as the Director of SIPRI's Arms Transfers Programme. His research interests focus on global arms trade, American and Oceania military inventories and geopolitics, coastal security, and comprehensive security. Mathew was previously the Practice Head of Aerospace, Defense and Security at GlobalData and before that a part of Jane’s Military Inventories and Naval Platforms teams.
Subject expertise
Comprehensive security, arms market trends and analysis, geopolitics and influences on the arms trade
Regional expertise
Americas and Oceania
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Languages
English
Education
PhD Dissertation, “A Comprehensive Security Approach to Coastal Security in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, 2008-2014"
Citizenship
India
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Tensions on the Belarus border: A look at military spending and arms import patterns (Topical backgrounder, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Transparency in Armaments in South East Asia: Learning from Three Decades of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (SIPRI, Stockholm: February 2024)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023 (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2024)
External publications
- George, M. Rethinking Comprehensive Security in ASEAN- A conceptual review and India's Possible Role, in Security Dynamics of India's Future Relations with Southeast Asian Nations, University of Madras (April 2012).
- George, M. Situating Environmental Degradation in the Human Security Matrix, in Jamadhagni, S U K (ed.), The Unrecognized Peril: Threats to Environmental Security, Vij Books (March 3, 2014).
- George M. Role of Indonesia, Nicaragua receives Russian T-72 tanks, set for September unveiling, in Jane’s Defence Weekly (August 2, 2016).
- George M. Royal Australian Navy trials deployable 3D printer technology, in Jane’s International Defence Review (November 25, 2019).