Dr. Mitchell is a distinguished academic with extensive experience in defence and security studies. He holds degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, King’s College London, and Queen’s University, and began his career as a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, contributing to the Canadian Navy’s “Adjusting Course” strategy. He later served as Directing Staff at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre and joined the Canadian Forces College (CFC) in 1998, where he became its first Director of Academics. In this role, he spearheaded the development of the Master of Defence Studies program after securing accreditation for the Command and Staff Course in 2001. Between 2005 and 2007, he taught at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute, before returning to CFC as Director of Academics from 2015 to 2021. Dr. Mitchell’s scholarly contributions have earned him international recognition. In 2003, he became the first non-American and civilian recipient of the U.S. Naval Institute and Surface Naval Association Literary Award for his work on Network-Centric Warfare and Small Navies. His research was featured in the prestigious Adelphi Paper series, and he authored Network-Centric Warfare: Coalition Operations in the Age of US Military Primacy. He was named an honorary graduate of the National Security Programme in 2016 and, in 2018, was commended for integrating design thinking into Professional Military Education by the International Military Design Conference.