James is a defence and security consultant. He completed nearly 3 years as a senior adviser to the Iraqi's National Security Council in Baghdad after the territorial defeat of ISIS in late 2017. In this role, he worked on the wider security sector reform agenda in support of Iraq's Office of the National Security Advisor. He continues to support national security initiatives in Iraq, working for private consultancy companies and Think Tanks, such as DCAF Geneva.Previously, he was a principal consultant with MASS, a UK defence and security consultancy, for two years until September 2017, specialising on strategy, training and business development. He runs his own small company, Pacificus Consultants, specialising in security and justice reform in countries emerging from conflict. He has been a 'Deployable Civilian Expert' in the UK's Stabilisation Unit (now the Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation) since 2015.He was a senior aide to the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping in UN Headquarters, New York having completed several multi-national field assignments in Kosovo, Afghanistan and DR Congo. He also worked for the UN in Kabul and was seconded to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, working on Afghanistan, later taking this expertise to the US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida. As a British Army Colonel, he headed the British Peace Support Team in Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi. He completed a defence-orientated MBA at Cranfield University. Resource management, leadership development and strategy have become his specialities since his times in London's MOD and UNHQ in NYC.Specialities: strategy, capacity building in fragile states, defence diplomacy, security sector reform, change management, operational planning, East and Central Africa, Middle East and Central Asia.