Dr. Damien Van Puyvelde chairs the Intelligence and Security Group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His expertise lies in contemporary intelligence, technology, and security governance. He is the author of The DGSE (Georgetown University Press, published in French with Nouveau Monde éditions) and Outsourcing US Intelligence (Edinburgh University Press), and co-author of Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace (Polity), now in its second edition. He has also co-edited two volumes with Georgetown University Press, Researching National Security Intelligence and Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention, and has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals. His current research addresses the anticipation of emerging technology and its implications for international and public–private cooperation, the blurred lines between covert action and intelligence collection, and the public reception of intelligence disclosures.

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Dr. Damien Van Puyvelde chairs the Intelligence and Security Group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His expertise lies in contemporary intelligence, technology, and security governance. He is the author of The DGSE (Georgetown University Press, published in French with Nouveau Monde éditions) and Outsourcing US Intelligence (Edinburgh University Press), and co-author of Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace (Polity), now in its second edition. He has also co-edited two volumes with Georgetown University Press, Researching National Security Intelligence and Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention, and has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals. His current research addresses the anticipation of emerging technology and its implications for international and public–private cooperation, the blurred lines between covert action and intelligence collection, and the public reception of intelligence disclosures. 

He has held positions at research-intensive universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands, and from 2020 to 2023 he chaired the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association. His research has been supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, and the UK Global Challenges Research Fund, and he has contributed to large projects funded by the European Commission and the US government.

Dr. Van Puyvelde is committed to sharing research within and beyond academia. He serves on the editorial boards of Intelligence and National Security and Études Françaises de Renseignement et de Cyber, and has acted as an expert evaluator for the European Commission and France's High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education. He is affiliated with the Strategic Research Institute of the French Ministry of Armed Forces and the Research Centre of the Norwegian Intelligence School. His work has been featured in outlets including Le Monde and The Washington Post, and he has contributed to public engagement initiatives with the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

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