Bio

At the University of Reading, Dr Gilder is Associate Professor of International Law and Security, an Academic Lead (Line Manager) and Deputy Director of Global Law at Reading.

He is also an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) where he supports the Institute’s work on Military Sciences and Associate Faculty in the School of Humanitarian Studies at Royal Roads University (Canada) where he contributes to the MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding.

He has held visiting positions at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (Canada), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Germany), Gujarat National Law University (India), and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Hargeisa (Somaliland). He has guest lectured on topics of international law and global governance on the London Law Programme of the University of Notre Dame (USA) and the University of Virginia Summer Program at University College, University of Oxford. Prior to joining Reading, he was a Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London.

He is Associate Editor of Societal Impacts (Elsevier) and the Series Editor of Anthem Advances in Defence and Security Studies (Anthem Press) and he sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Peacekeeping (Brill) and the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Brill). He serves as an External Examiner at both the University of Lincoln and Glasgow Caledonian University.

Dr Gilder holds a PhD and PgCAP from City, University of London, an LLM in Public International Law from Utrecht University, and an LLB (Hons) from the University of Lincoln.