Bruce Oliver Newsome is a British-born Professor of International Relations at the University of California, Berkeley, where he leads courses on Global Security and Risk Management, social scientific skills, Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency. He started his career as a defense and security consultant at the RAND Corporation. Newsome is the author of “Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers are Better than Others” (2007), “A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management” (2014), “Research, Analysis, Writing” (2015), and “Homeland Security and Emergency Management” (2016). He holds a PhD in International and Strategic Studies from the University of Reading.