Klaus Dodds is executive dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin Warsaw Poland.

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After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994. Since 1994, he has worked at the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway and served in the past as dean of the graduate school for the university and director of research for the School of Life Sciences and Environment. He has held visiting fellowships at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Loughborough University and St Cross College and St Johns College University of Oxford. He is a former editor of The Geographical Journal, current editor of Chief Territory Politics Governance and the co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Reece Jones.^[1]

In 2005 Klaus Dodds was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'"^[2] In 2008 he was awarded the Richard Morrill Public Outreach Award by the Political Geography Speciality Group of the AAG. In 2012 he was elected to the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences as Fellow. In 2017 he was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for his work on polar geopolitics. Beyond academia he has worked as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords select committee on the Arctic and the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee. He is a former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society (2019-2022) and continues as an Honorary Fellow of British Antarctic Survey.

His books which have been translated into multiple languages include Border Wars (Ebury Press, 2021), Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond (Palgrave 2017, with Lisa Funnell), Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007, 2014,2019) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris 2002).^{[citation needed]}