Stephen Jolly (academic)

Stephen Jolly (b. 1960) is an Adjunct Professor (Professeur Agrégé) at the ESC Rennes School of Business, Grande École and a Fellow Commoner of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. A former Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School, he was a Fellow and Bye-Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, between 2005-17. Jolly served two Vice-Chancellors - Professor Dame Alison Richard DBE and Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS - as the University's Director of External Affairs & Communications between 2005-13. Educated in England and Canada, Jolly studied at the Universities of and Sussex and at the Sauder Business School, University of British Columbia where he was a Commonwealth Scholar and Killam Fellow.
Influence
A former senior British Defence official and propagandist, Jolly developed the Rainbow in the Dark doctrine which "led to a radical overhaul of Defence stratcom capability and governance."
Jolly has held a variety of academic fellowships. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and a Fellow of RAND Europe (2015-6). He has held Visiting Fellowships at the International Centre for Security Analysis, King's College, London, (1999-2002), at the Centre for Strategic Communications, War Studies Department, King's College, London (2015-18), at the British think tank ResPublica (2016-19), at RAND Europe (2019-2020), and was a Visiting Scholar at (2021).
In 2020, Jolly was elected an Honorary Member of the in recognition of his contribution to UK media operations.
Pro bono
Jolly is a trustee of a family charity, Edward Jolly's Charity, founded in 1784. The charity focuses on the relief of child food poverty.
Recent developments
Jolly has a long history of involvement in the corporate affairs and communications industries. Between 2016-20, he worked as Director of the Saatchi Institute, Lord Saatchi’s private think tank headquartered in London. He was also a director in M&C Saatchi’s global behaviour change practice before joining a start-up geopolitics firm as its first CEO.
Jolly was appointed to an Adjunct Professorship at ESC Rennes School of Business, a French business school, in 2021.
Articles
Articles published include:
* "Rainbow in the Dark Revisited: The Rise and Fall of Full Spectrum Communications", (To be published in 2022)
* "Understanding the Drivers of Organisational Capacity", with Kate Cox, Simon Van Der Staaij, Christian Van Stolk, RAND Europe research report published in collaboration with the Saatchi Institute (March 2018)
* "Who's Afraid of Viktor Shklovsky? On The Nature of Persuasion and the Work of an Unjustly Neglected Russian Formalist", Impact: The Magazine of the Association of Commonwealth Universities PR, Marketing and Communications Network, 6-7: No 11 (August 2011)
* "We are all Marketeers Now", CAM: Cambridge University Alumni Magazine, 39: Issue 63 (Easter 2011)
* "Crimes of Coercive Persuasion: Rectification under the Khmer Rouge", Falling Leaf: The Journal of the Psywar Society, 173, 52-55 (2001)
* "Ungentlemanly Warfare: A Reassessment of British Black Propaganda Operations 1941-1945", Falling Leaf: The Journal of the Psywar Society, 171, 148-156; 172, 23-37 (2001)
* "From SOB to I/OPs: The Unwritten History of British Black Propaganda 1947-97", Falling Leaf: The Journal of the Psywar Society, 171, 130-134 (2001)
* "The Mardin Essay: Psychological Warfare and Public Relations", Frontline: The Global Public Relations Quarterly, 22 (4), 22-30 (2000)
* "Wearing the Stag's Head Badge: British Combat Propaganda since 1945", Falling Leaf: The Journal of the Psywar Society, 170, 86-89 (2000)
* "Morale Operations: The Cinderella of Covert Propaganda Operations?", Falling Leaf: The Journal of the Psywar Society, 170, 114-116 (2000)
* "Understanding Body Language: Theory of Kinesics", Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 5 (3), 133-139 (2000)
* " Maxims of Subversion: British Black Propaganda Techniques in WW2", Falling Leaf: The Journal of the Psywar Society, 169, 64-70 (2000)
* "Text or Context: Östman's Theory of Persuasion", The Journal of Communication Management, 4 (2), 159-163 (1999)
* "Corporate Advocacy in Public Affairs: Winning a Voice in the Marketplace of Ideas", International Public Relations Review, 21 (3), 10-13 (1999)

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