Aberdeen Central
Constituency
James Wyllie
Reform UK candidate for Aberdeen Central
“Aberdeen city needs unhindered drilling and production in the North Sea. Reform has always supported it!”
About James
James Wyllie is Emeritus Professor in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
He is from a farming family in Dumfriesshire, and he is a graduate of the universities of Stirling and Lancaster.
Between 1979 and 2021 he was Director of postgraduate Strategic Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
Previously, he was a Research Officer in the Defence Intelligence Staff in the UK Ministry of Defence, Teaching Fellow in Politics at Durham University, and Lecturer at the University of East Anglia before joining the Department of Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen.
In 1988 he was a Commonwealth Research Fellow in Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and from 2012–2015 he was a Visiting Scholar at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin.
He has published widely on international security, and for many years he was a regular contributor to television and radio news and current affairs programmes in the UK and abroad.
He was also a frequent consultant to the UK Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and some overseas governments.
- Lower taxes to help working people keep more of what they earn
- End costly Net Zero measures that push up bills
- Stand up for free speech and common-sense policies
- Back local businesses and create real economic growth
Aberdeen Central
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Constituency Information
Electorate: 55,994
Council Area: Aberdeen City
Additional Members Region: North East Scotland
