Stephen Jolly is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge; a Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School and since 2005, has been Director of External Affairs & Communications for the University of Cambridge. He was educated at Christs College, Cambridge, the University of Sussex and the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he held both a Commonwealth Scholarship and a Killam Fellowship in the late 1980s. A former instructor at the British Defence Intelligence & Security Centre, Chicksands, he was a Visiting Fellow in Psychological Warfare at the International Centre for Security Analysis, Department of War Studies, Kings College, London (1999–2002). Jolly is a member of the Cambridge University Military Education Committee and an honorary Captain in the Cambridge University Officers Training Corps (CUOTC), whose alumni are known colloquially as Light Blue Volunteers.