Stuart Dee is a research leader in the defence and security research group at RAND Europe, focusing primarily on defence economics and acquisition across major UK and European programmes. He joined RAND after spending over a decade in industry, most recently at Rolls-Royce plc where he was involved in a number of large defence programmes including Eurofighter Typhoon, the Future Combat Air System and AUKUS. He has also spent time as a secondee into UK Government working on export and industrial strategy policy and previously sat on Government working groups on defence exports and industrialisation. His research at RAND Europe focuses on complex acquisition programmes across multiple domains.