John Taylor has worked in the intelligence and security world for 50 years. He spent 30 of those in Britain’s foreign service and on retirement established his own company which went on to train and advise intelligence and security services around the world. He is now a senior research fellow at Kings College London where he lectures on their Masters’ course. 

As he retired from public service, John fell into the bad company of Psychologists at University College London and has now written five books with them on diverse subjects including why people do bad things at work, remote profiling of people’s personalities and his most recent ‘The Psychology of Spies and Spying: Trust, Treason and Treachery’ expected to be published this Autumn. 

He now advises companies and governments on strategic development subjects, the Insider Threat and personality profiling. 

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From Russia with Love: Watch as Magnus Linklater, former Met Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe and John Taylor, who has spent over 50 years working in intelligence and security, including close contact with human sources like Oleg Gordievsky, as they discuss the state of play concerning domestic and international security. (2021)