Richard Shirreff — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Served as NATO's 4-Star Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) from 2011 to 2014.
Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia Worldwide, a global strategy design and risk management company.
Co-founded Strategia Worldwide Ltd in February 2016.
Author of '2017: War with Russia' (2016), a bestseller translated into eight languages.
Advisory Board member of Genderforce, a security organization focused on preventing sexual and gender-based violence.
Graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with a degree in Modern History.
Commanded soldiers in combat during the Gulf War (1991) and Iraq, and operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, and Bosnia.

Biography

General Sir Richard Shirreff was born in Kenya in 1955 and educated in England. He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern History before being commissioned into the British Army from Sandhurst in 1976. He was promoted to captain in 1980 and major in 1987, beginning a distinguished 37-year military career.

Throughout his service, Shirreff commanded soldiers on operations at every level from platoon to division.