Natural Resources & Security - Nicholas Seymour

Nicholas Seymour served in the UK Army with operational tours in Northern Ireland, Kuwait / Iraq and the Former Yugoslavia. His background includes training, doctrinal development and operational planning, command of an armoured regiment, and of the British Army’s major combined arms training centre. He has worked in both national and multi-national headquarters in peace and war; in the latter context he was a planner in the US VII Corps Headquarters during the first Gulf War. He is a graduate of the UK Army Staff College and the US Army War College. After serving in the UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations he moved to the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations as Chief of Military Plans and subsequently as Head of DPKO’s African Union Peace Support Team. In the latter appointment he was responsible for providing capacity building support to the African Union, particularly to the development of the African Standby Force; this included advice on operational, training and support issues as well as a period providing direct support to the African Union-United Nations panel on Modalities for Support to African Union Operations chaired by Romano Prodi. Since leaving the UN in 2011 he has divided his time between working for Transparency International (UK)’s Defence and Security Programme as a senior consultant and delivering training programmes to support the African Union and regional organisations. Currently he is working with the AU and SADC to support the implementation of Exercise AMANI Africa, the next milestone in the development of the ASF.