Scott Mackie
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Scott Mackie served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the British Royal Navy, deploying on operations across the world and gaining significant experience across a number of areas including humanitarian and disaster relief, counter-piracy and counter-narcotics operations, high threat area maritime escort, defense diplomacy, and regional engagement. He also has experience in cross-government operational planning and execution, contingency and resilience planning, and intelligence and information collection and analysis.
Scott specializes in emergent systems and space, with a particular focus on military and defence applications, and issues of resilience in the face of space denial. He also continues to take a keen interest in matters of global maritime security, especially as they pertain to the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Indo-Pacific regions. Scott holds an MA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen. He is furthermore currently completing his MRes at the University of Portsmouth, where he is conducting research on UK space policy and whether the UK possesses the capability and resources to match its ambition in the space operating environment. |