Captain Ian Clarke Royal Navy (Retired)

Captain Ian Clarke Royal Navy (Retired)

  • Director Business Development
  • Sirius Insight, UK

Ian Clarke is the Director, Business Development with Sirius Insight.  He is a former Captain in the Royal Navy, having served for more than 30 years as a Warfare Officer, gaining extensive experience of maritime surveillance and security operations in many different regions all around the world.  He commanded four ships including offshore patrol vessels engaged in homeland security, and a destroyer deployed overseas.  He was the maritime officer in the HQ Directorate UK Special Forces working with other government departments to enhance maritime resilience and response, and a Special Advisor to the Chair of NATO’s Military Committee.  His final assignment was as the British Defence Attache in Madrid between 2019 – 2022.  Ian has an MSc in Technology (Maritime Operations).  He joined Sirius Insight in 2023 , pleased to be championing the smarter use of data to enhance maritime border security.  

Sessions

  • Maritime and Big Rivers

    Rivers create a particular set of problems for border management. Rivers can flow hundreds and thousands of kilometres from the ocean into national territories. Indeed, rivers make up 23 percent of all international borders.
    South America has the largest number of international borders made up by rivers—nearly half. Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, French, Guiana, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. On the Indian subcontinent the rivers Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus are shared with neighbouring countries, India Nepal, Bhutan, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
    As an example of the complexity the Danube can be navigated by ocean going vessels from the Black Sea 2,400 km into the very heart of Europe, passing through or making up part of the border of ten of those countries.
    So, how do you manage the intersection of rivers, seas and oceans and the multi-national and multi-jurisdictional complexity of this most challenging of border domains.

  • Applying layered surveillance to deliver next-generation maritime domain awareness and provide resilience along extended maritime borders