Jesse Hamilton is Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, where he is also Assistant Director of the Military Leadership and Judgment Programme.

His research examines how institutions exercise authority under uncertainty in national security and science policy, with particular attention to democratic legitimacy and expert authority. He has published on artificial intelligence in defense, institutional responsibility, and the legitimacy of scientific authority, including work on community science and scientific consensus. He is currently developing work on civil-military relations and on institutional agency, asking when military organizations, rather than the individuals within them, are the proper unit of analysis for decision-making and responsibility.

Before academia, Jesse served in the US Army, including with the 101st Airborne Division, as a drill sergeant, and as an embedded advisor to the Iraqi Army in Fallujah, Iraq. He subsequently worked in asset management as a financial advisor and fixed-income trader.

Jesse earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and was previously a Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.