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Adam Wakeling
Adam Wakeling is Shephard Media's Product Manager. With his production experience, Adam also provides additional video editing, directing and filming services across a number of Shephard's News and Studio projects.
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Alexander Mladenov
Alexander Mladenov is a Shephard correspondent based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Alix Valenti
Dr Alix Valenti is an international freelance defence journalist. Her main focus is on naval affairs, more specifically on identifying and discussing the latest technological trends in the naval industry and how those shape/are shaped by CONOPS.
Alix holds a PhD in post-conflict reconstruction. She also works with industry partners to deliver on-camera interviews with SMEs across a number of defence matters.
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Andrew White
Andrew is a former editor of Digital Battlespace and Unmanned Vehicles magazines. Andrew joined Shephard Media from Jane’s, where he was land forces reporter for International Defence Review and Jane’s Defence Weekly.
Andrew has served with UK forces in three operational theatres: Afghanistan, the Balkans and Iraq. He still contributes to Shephard titles, including Land Warfare International, when he isn't teaching people how to remove vital organs with a dull spoon.
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Anna Crossland
Anna was a Defence Insights analyst at Shephard.
Prior to joining Shephard, Anna worked with the UK Ministry of Defence as part of a defence consultancy programme where she worked with DSTL and the Army’s Collective Training Group to develop reformed training databases for the Royal Navy.
She has experience in the realm of cyber defence and air defence through her education and research roles. This has included courses such as the science and security of ballistic missile systems, the future of war, and assisting in research on cyber resilience and emerging technologies.
Anna holds a BA in Politics and International Relations, and an MA in National Security Studies.
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Antonio Segovia Rentería
Antonio was a pilot cadet at Chilean Air Force Aviation School (1995 to 1998), where he obtained a Bachelor degree, and then he retired. He graduated from Universidad Diego Portales as a Graphic Designer in 2004. He worked alongside with another former Chilean Air Force air crew performing aviation historical research from 1999 to 2006 at HP Multimodel Magazine. Since 2014 he is co-owner and editor of TallyHo, a Chilean digital aviation magazine.
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Arie Egozi
Born in Israel, Arie Egozi served in the IDF and holds a political science and journalism degree from Tel- Aviv University.
Arie has worked as an aerospace and defence correspondent for Israel's largest daily Yedioth Ahronot and foreign defence publications such as Flight International, Aviation Week and Breaking Defense.
He is also editor-in-chief of the Israel Homeland Security website (I-HLS).
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Ashley Roque
Ashley Roque joined Shephard Media in January 2018 as its North American Editor, based in Washington, DC. Over the past 15 years she has covered defence and US politics for Inside Washington Publishers and the Roll Call Group, while also serving as the editor-in-chief for Hello Switzerland magazine.
Ashley holds a BA in English with a minor in journalism from Florida State University and a master’s degree in conflict transformation from the University of Basel.
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Asiri Fernando
Asiri Fernando is a journalist based in Sri Lanka who covers aerospace, defence and maritime security issues.
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