In 2021, Eden Cole joined the international advisory board of the Georgian Center for Strategy and Development – GCSD. Eden is an Executive-in-Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and co-founder of Raidillon Associates. He has worked in Europe, MENA, and Asia-Pacific on security sector governance and rule of law programmes since 2002. From 2004-2018 he worked on security sector reform programmes in Georgia and Ukraine at the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). Eden holds a BA and MA from the University of London. His most recent work includes analysis of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for the private sector, as well as counter-trafficking programming with UNODC and Combined Maritime Forces in the Western Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.