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Currently Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Emerging Security Challenges at Nato, Shea received a First Class Honours degree from Sussex University in Modern History and French before reading for a Doctorate at Oxford University which he completed in 1981. His thesis was titled “European Intellectuals and the Great War 1914-1918”.
He started his career in Nato as Administrator in the Council Operations Section of the Executive Secretariat, then became Head of Youth programmes before moving on to head up External Relations Conferences and Seminars. In 1988 he became Assistant to the Secretary General for Special Projects where he was responsible for speech writing and ghost writing articles, press releases, book chapters and official communiquès as well as advising the Secretary General on political and military issues and on his public communications strategy.
In 1993 he became Nato spokesman and Deputy Director of Information and Press and then in 2003 he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division. In September 2005 he was appointed Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General responsible for advising and assisting the Secretary General, senior NATO management, and the Council in addressing strategic issues facing the Alliance.
Nato created its new Emerging Security Challenges Division in August 2010 to deal with a growing range of what the alliance calls “non-traditional risks and challenges,” including terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), cyber defense and energy security. Dr Shea leads the division, which will also provide Nato with a strategic analysis capability to monitor and anticipate international developments that could affect allied security.