{"id":1826,"date":"2025-11-18T18:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmseducation.org\/iccjw\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:08:59","slug":"dr-mathew-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmseducation.org\/iccjw\/dr-mathew-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mathew George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1417\" src=\"https:\/\/cmseducation.org\/iccjw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/11\/31-Dr.-Mathew-George.webp\" alt=\"Dr Mathew George, Director, Arms Transfers Programme, SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmseducation.org\/iccjw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/11\/31-Dr.-Mathew-George.webp 300w, https:\/\/cmseducation.org\/iccjw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/11\/31-Dr.-Mathew-George-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Honourable Dr Mathew George<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director of the Arms Transfers Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honourable Dr Mathew George serves as Director of the Arms Transfers Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a role he has held since May 2023. A leading expert in global arms trade and defence analysis, his work encompasses military inventories across the Americas and Oceania, coastal and comprehensive security, and international arms transfer patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before joining SIPRI, Dr George served as Practice Head for Aerospace, Defence, and Security at GlobalData and contributed extensively to Jane\u2019s Military Inventories and Naval Platforms teams. His research has been central to several of SIPRI\u2019s flagship publications, including Trends in International Arms Transfers 2023, Trends in International Arms Transfers 2024, and Tensions on the Belarus Border (2023).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through his scholarship and policy engagement, Dr George advances SIPRI\u2019s mission of fostering peace, transparency, and global security by providing rigorous, data-driven insights into the complexities of international arms dynamics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Honourable Dr Mathew George Director of the Arms Transfers Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Honourable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profiles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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