Keir Giles has spent his career watching, studying and explaining Russia. Keir is a regular contributor and commentator on Russian affairs for international print and broadcast media, as well as publishing in-depth research in academic and military publications across Europe and in North America. Keir is an Associate Fellow at the UK's Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), but has also worked with more than a dozen governments and defence forces around the world predicting and analysing the Russian threat. He has authored multiple publications explaining the Russian approach to warfare, including NATO's "Handbook of Russian Information Warfare" (2016), and "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West" (Brookings, 2019), diving deep into the persistent factors causing relations with Russia to fall into crisis. His most recent book is "Who Will Defend Europe?" (Hurst, 2024) which predicted the impact of a second Trump presidency on European security and called for urgent steps to mitigate it. In September 2026, Keir hopes to publish "American Overthrow: Moscow's Endgame in its Long War with Washington", examining Russia's ideological capture of the current American ruling elite.