Anthony Glees is recognised as a nationally and internationally published expert on European affairs, the British-German relationship and Security and Intelligence questions. The author of numerous books and scholarly studies in this field, he is very frequently quoted in the national and international media, with recent appearances on Sky TV News, the BBC News Channel, ‘Hart Aber Fair’, ‘Anne Will’ and ‘Die Phoenix Runde’, London Times, Sun, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Star, New York Times,Xinhua/People’s Daily, DeutschlandRadio, WDR & many other networks.
In November 2025, Anthony was appointed as a , and was also made a Friend of the .
He was educated at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. 1971-2 Michael Foster research Scholar, University of Oxford, senior associate member St Antony’s College. 2008-present Professor of Politics, and until July 2019, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS). ÌýThereafter, Emeritus Professor at The University of Â鶹ֱ²¥. Previously Professor of Politics & director of European Studies, then director of Centre for Intelligence and Security studies, at Brunel University, London.
Speeches, lectures and media appearances
2025
In 2025 Anthony Glees has continued to be widely consulted on national and international security issues by both the mainstream national and international media, providing expert analysis in keynote interviews with major news outlets on substantial areas of concern, including:
- Britain’s lack of defence capability, repeatedly addressed in the and
- Britain’s need to firmly counter Russian and North Korean ambitions in theÌý and
- The Russian war against Ukraine in the
- The Israeli-Gaza war and the intelligence failure that precipitated it in October 2023
- The UK-USA relationship following the election of President Donald J Trump in The Sun: and
- The threat posed by Russian and Chinese espionage against the UK in the
- Cybersecurity issues in an era of widespread hacking, with a key contribution in the and
Anthony continues to be a frequent and regular interview contracted guest on GBNews, Talk TV, LBC, BBC Radio Two (the Jeremy Vine Programme), BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Ulster, BBC Scotland and a regular guest on New Zealand’s Herald tv channel, most recently .
He was delighted to accept an invitation to speak on ‘Food security in a dangerous world’ alongside the Rt Hon Sir James Cleverly MP to the Save British Farming conference at the National Liberal Club, London 27 April 2025 and an invitation from the Student Debating Society to debate ‘liberty and security’ at the University of Durham. Over the year, Anthony has relished conversations with many distinguished former students’.
2024
Media contributions to Sky News, the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio Five Live, Jeremy Vine on ITV Channel Five, Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio Two; LBC (Matt Frei and Clive Bull), Talk TV, ,Ìý Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ZDF Tagesschau, Maischberger (ARD Germany), SAT-1, Pro-Arte TV, Arise TV Nigeria; The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Daily Star; Correrio Brazliense; radio i/v’s for France-24, NDR, SWR-1, InfoRadio Berlin
- ‘Boris Johnson as the Great Corrupter of British Political Culture’ in Politische Skandale und politische Macht Thomas Poguntke ed, Nomos Verlag/CH Beck Baden-Baden pp 74-101
- ‘The Failure to Prosecute Nazi War Crimes committed in Alderney’ and ‘Atrocities in Alderney; Eye-witness accounts’ in HM Government 2024 pp 78ff
- The above has been widely reported in the international media, e.g. and ‘Government ‘owes apology’ over Nazi camps cover-up’.
Lord Pickles wrote: “As the Review progressed, it became increasingly clear that the lack of war crimes trials on Alderney, for the outrages and the murders committed by the Nazis, was an issue that must be addressed. I am grateful to Professor Anthony Glees for taking on this daunting task. Again, my expectations were exceeded, and I was surprised by his discoveries. Professor Glees found not one but a succession of cover-ups. While it is intriguing that the fate of the Nazi murderers on Alderney was intimately linked to the PoW breakout at Stalag Luft III (The Great Escape), they should have faced British justice. The fact that they did not is a stain on the reputations of successive British governments.”
2023
- October: Appointed special Advisor to Lord Pickles, UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to assist with the Review of Evidence relating to prisoners held by the German forces and the SS on Alderney during the Second World War.
- Lecture on ‘Political Corruption in British Politics since Brexit’ at the Institute for German and International Party Law and Research into Political Parties, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
- German National Television (‘Das Erste’, ADR via NDR) All-day Commentary on the Coronation of King Charles III, 6 May
- Consultant to exhibition ‘’ Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Op-ed and interviews for UK and international media
- discussing David Cameron, NDR, November 2023.
- , ‘MoD worker lost their password when it fell out of pocket at petrol station’, also discussed in , November 2023.
- discussing Word War 3, Daily Star, October 2023.
- Interviews in and discussing the Hamas attacks, October 2023.
- , discussing Putin’s 71st birthday, October 2023.
- , ‘Channel Island Nazis inquiry under pressure to find out why perpetrators never faced justice’, July 2023.
- discussing Kim Jong Un, Fox News, July 2023.
2022
- Keynote speaker ‘Europe post-Brexit’ at the Osnabrueck Peace Week, the City of Osnabrueck; with David McAllister MEP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, in Europa nach dem Brexit in Universitaet Osnabrueck Gemeinsam fuer den Frieden pp 22-23 12 May
- Lecture University of Bonn ‘Refugee Policy in the UK post-Brexit’ 13 May
- Keynote speaker ‘Elizabeth II and international relations’ the Ritz Hotel, London 2 June
- German National Television (‘Das Erste’, ADR via NDR) All-day Commentary on the State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II, 19 September
- ‘’ Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, October 2022
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2021
- Anthony Glees ‘Bye-bye Britain’ in Plickert, Philip ed Merkel: die kritische Bilanz von 16 Jahren Kanzlerschaft Spiegel Bestseller Finanz Buch Verlag Munich, 2021 pp 252-263
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2018
- The Cambridge Union 10 May 2018, to move the motion that the UK should not participate in the FIFA2018 match in Russia, following the attack on the Skripals in Salisbury.
- Berlin 15 May 2018ÌýÌýto give a keynote address to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Brexit and Security.
- The Sir Francis Walsingham talk 24 May 2018 to the annual UK’s Intelligence Corps Dinner at the Headquarters of the Intelligence Corps, at Chicksands, on Brexit and Security
- Keynote speaker on Brexit and Europe at the University of WittenÌý9 June 2018
- I was invited to give evidence on
- ‘: on 7 July, with Martin Selymayr (European Commission) and Elmar Brok
- : Keynote after dinner speech on 16 July at the Bavarian SME Industrialists’ Assn annual meeting in Munch; Hotel Bayrischer Hof
- Keynote speaker 1-5 August at the Kronbichl Seminar (Salzburg) with Prof Michael Stuermer and Thomas Kielinger
- 13-15 September keynote speech ‘European Migrane?’ at a conference with the Thomas Mann House in Nida, Lithuania, organised by the British Council
- 22 September 2019 Keynote speech to the (Germany’s oldest learned scientific society) in Paderborn
- 23 October Koenigstein/Frankfurt.
- 7-9 November, Berlin
- TV appearances on Sky News 2 & 21 July, 18 August and 29 September; BBC World News; German tv ZDF and ARD (‘Maischberger’ twice, ‘Anne Will’ & ‘Phoenix Runde’ several times);
- BBC Five Live, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales (several times); German radio, national and statePrint media quotes 2470 hits at present, national and international media
Member of outside academic bodies
Assessor for the Government of Ireland Research Schemes and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Member of peer review college of ESRC (UK) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Government of Ireland Research board. Invited to give evidence to various parliamentary committees, including Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, House of Lords Europe Committee, All Party Parliamentary Committee on Homeland Security, All Party Committee onÌýÌýthe Rule of Law. I am a member of numerous editorial boards of scholarly journals in the UK, the USA and Australia. Board member of the Oxford Intelligence Group. 1990-2019 member of Wilton Board at FCO.
Work outside the academy: 1989-91 in the UK Home Office as advisor to the War Crimes Inquiry; 1998-2000 advisor to head of current affairs at BBC tv; 1997-2000 advisor to head of British Council, Germany.
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Recent publications
Anthony Glees (2019) ‘Unter Beschuss: Akademische Freiheit in Zeiten des Brexit’ÌýPolitische MitteilungenÌýNr. 558, September/Oktober 2019, 64. Jahrgang pp 102-8
Anthony Glees (2019) ‘Der Brexit, persoenlich genommen’ÌýPolitische MitteilungenÌýNr. 554,ÌýJan-Feb 2019, 64. Jahrgang pp 104-109
Anthony Glees (2018) ‘Gechillte Royals, zermürbte Brexiteers’: Die zwei Gesichter Großbritanniens im Sommer 2018ÌýPolitische MitteilungenÌýNr. 552,ÌýSeptember/Oktober 2018, 63. Jahrgang pp 65-69
Anthony Glees (2018) ‘Europa und der Brexit’ inÌýHistorisch-politische Mitteilungen: Archiv fuer Christlich-Demokratische PolitikÌý25. Jhrg 2018 Boehlau Verlag, Wien, Koeln, Weimar ISBN 9783412514785ÌýÌýpp 239-247
Anthony Glees (2018) ‘Ein “Merkel Plan” fuer Afrika’ in Michael RutzÌýGefaehrdete Welt: Einsichten und Auswege’Ìý2018 978-3-451-39986-2 Herder Verlag, Freiburg pp 60-73
Anthony Glees (2017) ‘Bye-bye Britain: Wie Angela Merkel den Ausschlag zum Brexit gab’ in Philip PlickertÌýMerkel eine kritische BilanzÌý, 2017 978-3-95972-065-6 Finanzbuchverlag, Munich pp 199-219
Anthony Glees (2017)Ìý‘Viewpoint: The Current Challenges to UK National Security and How They Might be Addressed’ÌýThe Journal of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence OfficersÌýVol 25 No 1 ISSN 1039-1525 pp 40-56
Anthony Glees (2017) ‘What Brexit means for British and European intelligence agencies’ inÌýThe Journal of Intelligence HistoryÌý(Abingdon: Taylor and Francis)ÌýVol 16, July 2017
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