Rob Havers

Robin Paul Whittick "Rob" Havers (born 1967) is a British military historian. He currently serves as the president of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.[1] He served as president of the George C. Marshall Foundation and as a former Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[2][3]

Rob Havers
Havers (right) speaks with Gen. Joseph Dunford in 2018
Academic background
Alma materQueen Mary University of London,
London School of Economics,
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsWestminster College

Education

Havers graduated from Queen Mary University of London with a bachelor's degree in history and politics; London School of Economics and Political Science with a master's degree in later modern British history and Pembroke College, Cambridge with a Ph.D.

He is the author of several articles and books. His Ph.D. thesis, “Reassessing the Japanese POW Experience: The Changi POW Camp, 1942-45,” was published as a book in 2003 and subsequently reissued in paperback in 2013.

Early career

He served as a professor of War Studies at Sandhurst and taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Cambridge.

He was visiting professor at Westminster College. He was executive director of the National Churchill Museum.

Later career

Havers has been president of the George C. Marshall Foundation since May 2014. He came to his post from his previous position as executive director of The National Churchill Museum and vice president for the Churchill Institute at Westminster College, located in Fulton, Missouri.[4] On 4 February 2018 Havers became the CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago, Illinois.[1]

Works
  • The Changi Prisoner of War Camp: From Myth to History. Richmond: Curzon. 2002. ISBN 0700716572.
  • Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience, Routledge, 2003. ISBN 9780700716579
  • Badsey, S.; Grove, M.; Havers, R. (2004). The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On: Lessons for the Future. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-134-26855-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References
  1. "Meet the new head of the Pritzker Military Museum". Crain's Chicago Business. February 14, 2019.
  2. "Dr. Rob Havers selected George C. Marshall Foundation president". Association of the United States Army. 2014-06-01. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  3. Times, Luanne Rife | The Roanoke. "British scholar chosen to lead Marshall Foundation". Roanoke Times. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  4. "Foundation President - The Foundation". www.marshallfoundation.org.
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