Michael Clarke is a British academic who specialises in defence studies.
He was Director of the Royal United Services Institute from 2007 to 2015.
[1] During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he serves as Sky News' security and defence analyst.
[2][3] A graduate of Aberystwyth University,[4] Clarke is a former Deputy Vice-principal and Director of Research Development at King's College London, where he remains a visiting professor of Defence Studies.
In 2004 and 2005 he was Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, where he had been a professor of Defence Studies since 1995.