Prof Dr Holger H. Mey is Vice President, Advanced Concepts, Airbus Defence and Space, Munich, Germany, and Honorary Professor for Foreign Policy at the University of Cologne, Germany. Until June 2004, Dr Mey worked as a security policy analyst, TV and radio commentator, publisher, and lecturer. From 1986 to 1990, he was a Research Associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, then in Ebenhausen, Germany. From 1990 to 1992, he served as a Security Policy Analyst on the Policy Planning Staff of the German Minister of Defense. From 1992 to 1994, he became the Security Policy Advisor to the Chairman, Defense Committee, German Parliament.

Dr Mey published more than 150 articles and a number of books, including ‘Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik 2030’, Frankfurt: Report Verlag, 2001 (English version: ‘German Security Policy in the 21st Century’, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004).