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Professor of Strategic Studies
Rid brings to Johns Hopkins more than a decade of experience in international security and intelligence studies, previously serving as a Professor of Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he developed a Cyber Security module that bridged the gap between technological and political debates.
Rid has recently shared his expertise on information security through testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as insights on intelligence with the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament.
Rid closely tracked the election interference in 2016, and was one of the first named sources to call out the hack-and-leak as a Russian intelligence operation, only one day after details became public.
He has held positions at the RAND Corporation in Washington, the Institut Français des Relations Internationales in Paris, and served as a visiting scholar at Hebrew University and Shalem Center in Jerusalem. From 2007 to 2008, Rid served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He holds a PhD and MA in Social Science from Humboldt University in Berlin.
Books:
Rid, T. (2016). Rise of the machines: A cybernetic history. New York: W. W. Norton et Company.
Rid, T. (2013). Cyber war will not take place. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Professor of Strategic Studies Thomas Rid interviewed on CNN, 11/04
Thomas Rid’s book cited in El Confidencial, 07/23
Thomas Rid cited in The Washington Post, 07/16
Thomas Rid cited in The Independent, 07/16
Thomas Rid cited in Business Insider, 07/16
Thomas Rid cited in The Week, 07/15
Thomas Rid cited in Washington Post, 07/08
Olga Oliker, Bruce Parrott, Thomas Rid, and Matthew Rojansky cited in War on the Rocks, 05/12
Thomas Rid quoted in Wall Street Journal, 04/17
Thomas Rid cited by Royal United Services Institute, 03/23