With keynotes by former GCHQ Director; Director of Operations of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, and contributions by prize winners.
About this event
Event Description
The Kjetil Hatlebrekke Prize is awarded biennially by King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence for the best book on non-Anglo-Saxon intelligence. The 2024 prize has been won by Dr Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya for his book India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block and by Dr Olga Bertelsen for her book In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine intelligentsia in the 1960s-70s. At this event Chaya and Bertelsen will talk about their research and the main findings of their prize-winning works.
Speakers' Bio
Dr Olga Bertelsen is an Associate Professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Tiffin University. Her research focuses on political violence, bioterrorism, covert action, counterintelligence, with special interests in Ukrainian and Russian history and intelligence. Her scholarship is grounded in archival research that she conducts in the United States and Europe, including the former KGB archives.
Dr Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya is a Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security at the University of Hull. Chaya's research interests are in the area of strategic intelligence and counterintelligence for national security, sub-state conflicts, radicalisation and de-radicalisation.