Dr. Stephen Downes-Martin has over 30 years of experience in developing and applying war gaming, game theory, decision analysis, and systems thinking to tactical, operational and strategic military problems, with a track record of delivering concrete operational results. He has successfully worked with a wide variety of government, military, aerospace, and commercial organizations in the US and abroad. Stephen is currently a Research Professor at the U.S. Naval War College, where his research focus is on how formal decision support methods and voting schemes can be manipulated to deceive the decision maker and how to detect such attempts. He teaches critical thinking, war gaming, game theory, risk analysis, deception and manipulation techniques to faculty and students. His education includes a Ph.D. from London University, M.A. (with Distinction) from the U.S. Naval War College (JPME Phase I), and industrial and academic courses in business management, science and technology, and liberal arts. Stephen has published widely, and has been an invited speaker in the US, Europe and the former Soviet Union on business, international security and technology issues. He was a military intelligence officer in the British Army, and is now a U.S. citizen with a TS/SCI clearance.