Dr. Rob Johnson is the Director of the Oxford Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre and a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Defence University Staff College and Rennes School of Business, France. Johnson combines historical and strategic studies with policy-focused knowledge exchange.
He was the first Director of the UK Office of Net Assessment and Challenge (dates not specified), working closely with the Secretary of State for Defence, Ministers, and the Cabinet Office. He continues to provide advisory support to the UK and allied governments, including the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Dr. Johnson has taught Strategic Studies, Net Assessment, and the History of War at multiple institutions, including Stanford, Harvard, and Yale, and delivers professional military education at the UK Defence Academy and the Royal College of Defence Studies. He also supervises postgraduate theses in strategy and provides undergraduate instruction at Oxford. His research focuses on strategy, the history of war, hybrid and sub-threshold warfare, multi-domain operations, counterinsurgency, and conflict termination. He has published on strategic leadership, civil-military relations, grand strategy, and military operations, including studies of the First World War in the Middle East and 21st-century military strategy. Johnson also directs scenario-based strategic exercises, advising NATO and UK armed forces on planning future operations and organizational structures.