Rob Havers


Robin Paul Whittick "Rob" Havers is a British military historian. He currently serves as the president of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. 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.

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. On 4 February 2018 Havers became the CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago, Illinois.

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