Owen Greene, Professor of International Security and Development at the University of Bradford, will be at PRIF on a one-year visiting professorship starting in November 2025. He has previously collaborated with PRIF on topics such as arms trade, arms control, and the reduction and control of small arms and light weapons (SALW).
Greene's research focuses primarily on national and regional conflict and security analysis, conflict prevention and management. Furthermore, he is an expert on the control of weapons: This includes weapons of mass destruction, disarmament and non-proliferation, especially of nuclear weapons and dual-use technologies, as well as the control and reduction of conventional weapons and SALW.
Owen Greene has directed and co-directed many influential expert policy advisory or support programmes: For example, he was (co-)director of several major programmes funded by the European Union, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC), Sweden, Ford Foundation, UK and others. This includes the advisory contract on conflict, security and development (CSD) between the UK Department for International Development (DfID)(and also FCO and MoD) and the Centre for International Cooperation and Security at the University of Bradford. He has also served as an advisor to the United Nations, the EU and the Organizaion for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on small arms issues and led the EU Council's mission to Cambodia on cooperation in combating small arms, as well as the team for the FCO study on conflict prevention in the Western Balkans and the study on security sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa.
During his visiting professorship at PRIF, which will consist of repeated stays in Frankfurt, Owen Greene will contribute his many areas of expertise across the Research Departments: His expertise in security policy and arms control ties in with the work of the International Security Research Department. His expertise on China as well as his experience in sub-Saharan Africa and at the United Nations also makes him a valuable partner to PRIF.