Air Vice-Marshal (ret.) Mike Hart is Senior Adviser on Defence and Intelligence for Oracle. He spent more than 30 years as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force, retiring in 2022. His operational experience encompasses the Middle East, Russia, Africa, the Balkans, and Northern Ireland. Latterly, he worked in key senior appointments in UK Defence Intelligence Operations and ran the UK’s cross-government Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre. He worked extensively with allies and is deeply experienced in ISR and targeting. He has wide experience of UK and Allied Intelligence Communities, including Five-Eyes and NATO. Educated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, he is a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and provides geopolitical advice to various think tanks, NGOs and academic bodies.