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Alastair Ross is Head of European Administration at the University of Kent and responsible for its postgraduate centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome.
Prior to this he was an officer in the British Army and served on operations in Bosnia, Iraq/Kuwait, Albania, Congo-Brazzaville, Indonesia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. A graduate of the French Staff College, he was a member of the UK’s deployable crisis management team before moving to command a squadron of Challenger 2 tanks. His final appointment was in the Directorate of Military Operations, in the Ministry of Defence, where he was responsible for managing the directorate’s commitments as well as being the ministry’s lead for the military contribution to the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the restructuring of resistance to interrogation training of the British Armed Forces.
He holds an MA in International Conflict Analysis and taught Military Strategy at the Brussels School of International Studies. His research interest is on the Private Military Industry.