Alma mater Humboldt University | Website ridt.co | |
Occupation Professor of Security Studies in the Department of War Studies, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy King’s College Residence City of London, United Kingdom Books Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Rise of the Machines: A Cybern, War 20: Irregular Warfare i, War and Media Operation, Rise of the Machines: The Lost Profiles | ||
Keynote by prof thomas rid cycon 2016
Thomas Rid is a political scientist best known for his work on the history and risks of information technology in conflict. He is Professor of Security Studies in the Department of War Studies, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy King’s College in London.
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Bbc world interview on cyber security with thomas rid king s college london
Biography
Rid grew up in rural region of Hegau close to Lake Constance and the Swiss-German border. In 1994 he graduated (Abitur) from the Nellenburg-Gymnasium in Stockach. From 1997 to 2002 he studied social and political science (with Herfried Münkler) at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and for one year at the London School of Economics. From 2003 to 2005 he was a Fritz-Thyssen-Scholar with the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Germany’s major government-funded foreign policy think tank, where he wrote his dissertation and first book, he received his PhD from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2006.
In 2006-2007 Rid was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), a Paris-based think tank dedicated to international affairs. In 2007-2008 he was a postdoc at the RAND Corporation, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and in 2009 a Public Policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In 2009 and 2010 Rid was in Israel conducting research as a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University and at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. In 2010 to 2011, he was fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Constance in Germany.
Since 2011 he has been researching and teaching at the Department of War Studies at King’s College and lives in the Barbican Estate in the City of London.
In October 2011 the Journal of Strategic Studies, a leading journal in that field, published his provocatively titled article, "Cyber War Will Not Take Place" which argued that all politically motivated cyber attacks are merely sophisticated versions of sabotage, espionage, or subversion - but not war. And that it is a mistake to think of cyberattacks as a form of war at all. After his 2013 book "Cyber War Will Not Take Place" Rid was considered "one of Britain’s leading authorities on, and sceptics about, cyber-warfare".