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Advisory Board Role Membership & Biographies
The aim of the Defence Academy Advisory Board is to capture senior level advice, the involvement of academics, senior business leaders, and public sector participants.
Defence Academy Advisory Board Membership
Ministry of Defence
- Gen Sir David Richards (Chair) - Chief of Defence Staff
- Ursula Brennan - Permanent Under Secretary of State for Defence
- Mr Peter Watkins - Director Defence Academy
- Mr Peter Wilson - Head of Strategy and Plans (Secretary)
Academia
- Professor Sir Adam Roberts - Montague Burton Professor for International Relations and Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
- Sir Paul Lever KCMG - Chairman of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Management Education
- Sir Peter Gershon - Non-executive Chairman of General Healthcare Group Ltd., Premier Farnell plc. and Symbian Ltd., and non-executive directorship of HM Treasury.
Science
- Dr Louise Bennett - Strategic and corporate governance. Public and private sector consultancy in exploitation of new technology, risk management including fraud prevention, crowd safety and the ethical dimensions of governance.
Leadership
- Professor Jonathan Gosling - Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
Military History
- Professor Hew Strachan - Chicele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford