James Gray is a longstanding Polar advocate. A former Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Environment, he chaired Parliament’s Polar Group, three Select Committee inquiries into the Polar Regions and convened the RUSI Poles Apart Conference. James founded and chaired the Antarctic Parliamentarians Assembly and is a member of the Advisory Councils of the Arctic Circle Conference and the Council on Geostrategy. An award-winning author of 11 books, James is a former Member of Parliament where he served as Shadow Defence Minister and founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies, and writes and speaks extensively on the Polar Regions, Defence, Foreign Affairs and the Environment. James' new book The Arctic: What Next? is available direct from the author james@jamesgray.org @ RRP £20.00 including P&P.