Chris Abbott is a freelance writer and researcher and Executive Director of Open Briefing. He is an honorary Sustainable Security Consultant at Oxford Research Group, and was the organisation's Deputy Director and Director of our Sustainable Security Programme until June 2009 (a programme he initiated in 2006 and remains on the advisory board for).

During his time at ORG he founded SustainableSecurity.org and was the author or co-author of numerous sustainable security publications, including An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change (ORG, 2008), Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World (Rider, 2007) and Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century (ORG, 2006). Since leaving ORG he has been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and written a second book, 21 Speeches That Shaped Our World: The People and Ideas That Changed the Way We Think (Rider, 2010).