Klaus Dodds is executive dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Dodds completed his PhD studies at the Department of Geography (now School of Geographical Sciences) University of Bristol in 1994.
He has supervised many PhD students in a range of subjects from critical and popular geopolitics and polar studies to cybersecurity and digital statecraft.
In 2022, he was invited to join the Shackleton Medal (for the Protection of the Polar Regions) awarding committee and has served for four years running as a judge.
His books which have been translated into multiple languages include Border Wars (Ebury Press, 2021, Penguin 2022), Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond (Palgrave 2017, with Lisa Funnell), Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007, 2014, 2019) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris 2002).