Georgina Sinclair is a senior adviser in policing and law enforcement for security sector reform within fragile and conflict affected states. Until 2014, she had an academic career, first as a lecturer in imperial and commonwealth history at the Universities of Reading and Leeds and latterly as a researcher at the Open University at the International Centre for Crime, Policing and Justice. Her earlier research focused on British colonial policing and decolonization while latterly she has focused on the internationalization of UK policing and the impact on the UK police brand.