Samuel Jardine

Samuel Jardine is a Geopolitical Risk Consultant and Historian specialising in the geopolitics, governance and security of space, the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the seabed. He particularly employs an Applied History and OSINT methodology. He has been a featured lecturer for institutions such as the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre, and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and has been published extensively including by Routledge. Sam has an extensive track record of project managing sensitive and complex multidisciplinary geopolitical-related research projects for defence, government, industry, and academia-based clients including the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, UK Ministry of Defence, the United Arab Emirates, Guyana, the UN World Food Programme, Confederation of Indian Industry, and Global Citizen and he holds UK Security Clearance.

He is the Head of Research at London Politica (A geopolitical risk think tank), a Senior Advisor for Luminint (a geopolitical Intelligence firm), and a Policy Specialist for the Lunar Policy Platform as well as being a current Fellow of the Foresight Institute’s space technologies programme.

Sam is also a Research Consultant for the Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) Defence, Industries and Society Programme, where he was previously a Military Sciences “Rising Stars” Thought Leadership Programme Mentee. Additionally, he is a Consultant for Mabway where he provides policy, geopolitical, and human-terrain-related expertise and support for the design, implementation, and delivery of UK Armed Forces warfighting and sub-threshold field exercises.

Finally, Sam is a Research Associate for Oxford University and the British Army’s Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research’s Climate Change & (In)Security Project (CCIP) which supports the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate and Security.

Sam formally was the Project Manager for Lord Kerslake’s independent crossbench commission on UK military infrastructure, initiated at the request of Labour Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey and supported by King’s College London’s Policy Institute. He was a 2023 Research Fellow of the Open Lunar Foundation, a Fellow with the Center for Space Governance, and a Research Fellow with the Arctic Institute, Ecologic Institute, and MiH-RCN-hosted Arctic