Nick Watts

Nick Watts is Policy Director and First Defence, and is a freelance International defence policy and strategy advisor.

Since 1999 he has worked on a variety of projects with an international and European dimension. He was Secretary to the Commission on the Commonwealth, set up by Francis Maude MP from June 2000-March 2001. He was previously Director of the cross-party “Future of Europe Trust”, based in the House of Commons from 1991-99. As Director of FET, he travelled extensively in central Europe and Russia, meeting many of the current generation of political leaders as they progressed up the career ladder. He has written numerous articles on International and European topics. Prior to his period in Westminster, he worked as a Lloyd’s broker in the City of London.