General Sir Adrian Bradshaw KCB OBE DL

General Sir Adrian Bradshaw has degrees in Agriculture, Defence Studies and International Relations. He has been a Visiting Defence Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford (2011), a Distinguished Fellow at RUSI, and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London.

He joined the 14th/20th King’s Hussars in 1980 and has served worldwide in armour, as a helicopter pilot and in other fields, commanding troops on operations at most ranks up to General. After service in the Cold War, his operational experience has included Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan and a number of other theatres.

General Bradshaw has commanded an Armoured Battlegroup, Brigade and Division, the UK Special Forces, the UK Land Forces and was Deputy Commander of the 140,000 strong NATO-led Force in Afghanistan. He completed his Regular service as Britain’s most senior officer in NATO as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2014-17. In recent years he has served as a fixed wing pilot in the RAF Reserve in the rank of Flying Officer.

He is now Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Honorary Colonel of the Artist’s Rifles. He has recently handed over as Chairman of BLESMA - the charity for limbless ex-Service members. He regularly moderates the Head of State and Government level, multinational conferences of the Aqaba Process to develop better strategy in regions of the world affected by religious extremism. He lectures on strategy for KCL and regularly speaks to business and other audiences, and is available through the London Speaker Bureau.