Dr. Samir Puri

Dr. Samir Puri is Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and author of The Great Imperial Hangover. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University in International Relations, worked at RAND, and then the UK Foreign Office, where his assignments covered counter terrorism, before he spent a year in east Ukraine monitoring the onset of war in 2014 - 15. After government service, Dr. Puri became a lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, and guest lectured at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. He retains a visiting post at King’s and between 2020 and 2022 was Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.