Gill Bennett was Chief Historian of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 1995–2005, and Senior Editor of the UK’s official history of British foreign policy, Documents on British Policy Overseas. Since then she has been involved in a number of research and writing projects in Whitehall, including working on the official history of the Secret Intelligence Service. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her books include Churchill’s Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence (2006) and Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy (2013).