Nicholas Glesby is the Network Administrator of the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network and Ph.D. Student in Canadian Studies at Trent University. 

His research interests include Canada-U.S. defence relations, Arctic security, and military history. His thesis examined the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) and its legacy of advice outcomes since 1940. He is also a Student Fellow and Research Assistant at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies and co-Lead of NAADSN’s Emerging Leaders Node (ELN). Nicholas completed his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts in Political Studies from the University of Manitoba.

Nicholas previously worked as a Policy Analyst in Transport Canada Prairie and Northern Regional Director General’s Office. He was the 2022 Gold Merit Scholar of the Oxford Diplomacy and Geopolitics Forum Summer Programme on International Affairs at the University of Oxford and 2023 Canadian Defence and Security Network Capstone Laureate. He was selected as the Canadian delegate to the US State Department International Visiting Leadership Program in 2024.

Policy Primer: NORAD in the Arctic: Command and Control Gaps and Information Siloes, by Nicholas Glesby, August 2023

Policy Primer: Academic Research on China’s Arctic Interests in English, 2006-2021: Preliminary Quantitative Analysis, by Gabriella Gricius with Nicholas Glesby, Ruting Guo, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, July 2023

Event Report: The Changing Arctic: Canadian and Icelandic Perspectives, by Nicholas Glesby, June 2023

Event Report: The Emerging Ideas Series: Celebrating 65 Years of NORAD, by Nicholas Glesby, May 2023

Event Report: NORAD at 65: The Arctic and Homeland Defense Symposium, by Nicholas Glesby, May 2023

Quick Impact: NORAD’s Aerospace Warning Mission: Reflections on Recent Incursions, by Nicholas Glesby, February 2023

Policy Brief: The Permanent Joint Board on Defence: Foundational or “Limbo” to a Renewed Purpose?, by Nicholas Glesby, August 2021

Event Report: NORAD Modernization Closed Door Workshop, by Nicholas Glesby, Daniel Kiesman, Jill Barclay, and Andrea Charron, June 2021