Ashlee Godwin was a member of the No. 10 Integrated Review Taskforce and a co-author of the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.

She joined No. 10 on secondment from Parliament, where she is a Senior Specialist in national security and international policy. There, she runs a team of experts working in support of five committees. These include the House of Commons Foreign Affairs, Defence and International Trade Select Committees, in addition to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.

Ashlee has previously worked at the UK defence think tank RUSI, as Deputy Editor of its flagship policy journal. She is a Fulbright Scholar in US national security policy-making, a Millennium Fellow with the Washington-based Atlantic Council, and in 2019 she participated in the State Department-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program on cyber security.