Dr David Whetham is Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the UK Defence Academy where he coordinates or delivers the military ethics component of courses for between two and three thousand British and international officers a year.

David has been a Visiting Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, Annapolis (2011), and with the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics at the Australian Defence College in Canberra (2009). He is currently a PLuS Alliance Fellow, coordinating reserach activities with King's strategic partners at University of New South Wales and Arizona State University, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at UNSW Canberra.

Publications include Ethics, Law and Military Operations (Palgrave, 2010), Just Wars and Moral Victories (Brill, 2009) and with Andrea Ellner & Paul Robinson (Eds), When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military (Ashgate: 2014).

David is Vice President of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics (Euro ISME) which holds an annual conference for military practitioners, academics and defence policy-makers In 2020, David was appointed as an Assistant Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force in order to contribute to the Afghanistan Inquiry (the Brereton Report) into allegations of war crimes committed by Special Forces personnel. 

Please pass all enquiries through David: david.whetham@kcl.ac.uk