Following his graduation from King’s College, Cambridge, Dr David Goddard joined the Royal Navy as a logistics officer, serving initially as a submariner. Having been selected for legal training, he was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Lincoln’s Inn in 2009 and completed his pupillage at the Chambers of Anthony Berry QC, 9 Bedford Row. Amongst his subsequent assignments, he served as an operational legal adviser in Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as at the NATO Maritime HQ at Northwood, UK, and spent two years as a Military Professor at the US Naval War College’s Stockton Center for International Law. He completed his Master’s degree in international human rights law at the University of Oxford, and was awarded his PhD by the University of Exeter for a thesis titled ‘The Application of International Human Rights Law to Maritime Security Operations’. On leaving the Royal Navy, he joined the UK Civil Service and is currently working as an Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.