Derek Lutterbeck is deputy director and holder of the Swiss Chair at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) in Malta and a project partner of the Research Division within the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). He holds a PhD in political science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI) in Geneva. His recent research has focused primarily on security sector reform as well as migration issues in the Mediterranean region. His publications have appeared in Armed Forces and Society, Mediterranean Politics, the Journal of North African Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Mediterranean Quarterly, Cooperation and Conflict, European Security and Sicherheit und Frieden.