12 Facts About Lawrence Freedman

Lawrence Freedman has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" and was a member of the Iraq Inquiry.

Lawrence Freedman is an Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London.

Lawrence Freedman then held a part-time lectureship at Balliol College.

Lawrence Freedman held positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Royal Institute of International Affairs before he was appointed, in 1982, Professor of War Studies at King's College London.

Lawrence Freedman was appointed a Fellow of the college in 1992.

Lawrence Freedman was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Oxford in the Blavatnik School of Government in 2015.

Lawrence Freedman helped to prepare the 1999 Chicago speech in which Tony Blair set out the 'Blair doctrine'.

Lawrence Freedman was the official historian of the Falklands campaign, and author of The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, published in two volumes.

Lawrence Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues, and provides book reviews for Foreign Affairs.

Lawrence Freedman was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1996 and Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 2003.

Lawrence Freedman was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom when appointed to the Iraq Inquiry in 2009.

Lawrence Freedman's wife is Judith Freedman, Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.