Biography
Dr Celia Parker-Vincent is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She completed her PhD in the department, focusing on leadership and management of the UK’s intelligence community. Her interests include organisational structures of intelligence systems, intelligence analysis & assessment, and the intelligence-policymaker dynamic.
She completed her MA in Intelligence and Security at the University of Leicester. She previously worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Cabinet Office and has extensive experience as a lecturer/trainer for the UK government. She has published articles in leading intelligence and security journals and has also published for RUSI, the UK’s leading defence think tank.
Research Interests
- Leadership and management of the UK's intelligence community
- Design and reform of intelligence systems
- Intelligence analysis and assessment
- Role of intelligence in democratic states
Publications
- “Beyond intelligence failure: Identifying the principles of intelligence success in government and private sector risk intelligence” with Dorothea Gioe, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (2026)
- “Learning from Canberra: A Smarter Vision for UK Intelligence and National Security”, RUSI Commentary(November 2025)
- Moving towards a secret intelligence joint capability?, RUSI Journal (Vol. 169 No 5, 2024), pp. 22-27
- The UK National Security Council and misuses of intelligence by policy makers: reducing the risk?, Intelligence and National Security (Vol. 35 No. 7, 2020), pp. 990-1006
- “La communaute britannique du renseignement”, Les mondes du renseignement: Approches, acteurs, enjeux (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2024), pp. 155-167
- National Security Council: why it would be unwise for Johnson to reduce its role, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 2020