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| − | From the [[Cabinet Office]] website announcing his appointment in May 2013 to the board of the [[Charity Commission]]:
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| − | :Gwythian Prins is Research Professor at the [[London School of Economics and Political Science]]. He is also visiting professor at the [[University of Buckingham]]. For over 20 years he was a Fellow in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and latterly University Lecturer in Politics. Much of his work has been in Africa or on strategic matters. During the latter 1990s he served as Senior Fellow in the Office of the Special Advisor on Central and Eastern European Affairs, part of the Office of the Secretary-General of [[NATO]], Brussels. He is currently a member of the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Strategy Advisory Panel. He has published on African history, medical anthropology, European politics and on military and strategic issues.
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| − | ===Education and career===
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| − | From the University of Buckingham's website:
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| − | :Professor Gwyn Prins, MA, PhD (Cantab), FRHS, took a Double First in History at Cambridge where, after election to his Research Fellowship he completed his doctoral research in African history and anthropology. His book arising (The Hidden Hippopotamus) won the Herskovits Prize for the best book on Africa in the year of its publication. Today, he is a research professor at the London School of Economics and the director of the LSE Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events. He joined LSE in 2000 successively as Professorial Research Fellow and then (2002-7) took the first stint as the first Alliance Research Professor jointly at LSE and Columbia University, New York. For over 20 years previously, he was a Fellow, Tutor and the Director of Studies in History at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]. He was a University Lecturer in Politics.
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| − | ===Climate and energy consultancies===
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| − | Prins was Consultant on Security at the [[Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research]] of the [[British Meteorological Office]] for four years to 2003. After the Velvet Revolution, he advised (unsuccessfully) the federal Czechoslovak government on energy and environmental policy in Prague.
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| − | ===Defence advice and publications===
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| − | In the latter 1990s Prins was a Senior Fellow in the Office of the Special Adviser on Central and Eastern European Affairs, Office of the Secretary-General of NATO, Brussels. Simultaneously he was Senior Research Fellow at the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]], Chatham House and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the (former) [[Defence Evaluation and Research Agency]] of the [[UK Ministry of Defence]], Farnborough.
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| − | He was also a foreign assessor of the [[US National Intelligence Council]]’s outlook studies and briefed senior Pentagon officials and flag officers. He is currently a senior academic adviser to the [[Defence Academy]] of the United Kingdom and is a member of the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Strategy Advisory Panel. Since 1980 he has taught at almost all levels and for all Services of British military officer training, as well as for the [[Foreign Office]].
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| − | :His work rotates around the many framings of security. He publishes widely and simultaneously in all the fields of his interests. In War Studies he was co-editor of the centenary commemoration of the work of Jan Bloch (The Future of War), author of The Heart of War and of many studies on strategic analysis, European politics (Another Europe?), and maritime issues. He has most recently published The British Way of Strategy-Making as a joint project between the [[Royal United Services Institute]] and the [[Humanities Research Institute]].
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| − | ==Views==
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| − | ===On criticism about the Charity Commission's board ===
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| − | Prins 'discounts observations' from some in the charity world that the [[Charity Commission]]'s new board [appointed May 2013] has insufficient experience of the sector. In an interview with ''Third Sector'' magazine he argued that:
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| − | :Its members are there because of a personal commitment, he says, and are well able to understand the charitable activities of the country. It's a very vigorous board," he says. "Few of us know how it was before, but the commission is back to being what it should be - an intelligent and humane regulator. Done properly and effectively, regulation is the single best way to protect and comfort traditional charities. We have to deter the bad guys and thereby reinforce the good guys."
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| − | :The commission has been through a stressful and confused period, including budget cuts, he says, but is now being rebalanced to make sure it is "on the front foot for front-line tasks". The board has set its priorities, including action against terrorist infiltration, fraud and those who exploit the privileges of being a charity or predate on vulnerable beneficiaries.
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| − | :"We will also take a view about charities keeping their campaigning within their charitable objects and purposes," he says. "Problems arise when charities push the envelope, and some have recently been in the public eye because of this. If a charity campaigns about matters that appear to be outside its objects, then naturally we will look at it.
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| − | :The weather has changed on this front. The public expects charities to stick to their knitting, to use an old-fashioned phrase. There's huge affection for charitable activities involving the giving of time and money. I agree with my neighbour in the village coffee shop: this is something that has to be protected and cherished." <ref> Stephen Cook, [http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Governance/article/1213800/interview-gwythian-prins/ Interview: Gwythian Prins], ''Third Sector'', 30 September 2013, acc 11 March 2013 </ref>
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| − | ==Affiliations==
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| − | *Visiting Professor in Modern War Studies at the [[University of Buckingham]]
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| − | ==Publications==
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| − | ==Resources==
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| − | ==Notes==
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| − | [[Category:Academics|Prins, Gwythian]]
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