Jamie Shea

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Jamie Shea

Jamie Patrick Shea CMG (born 11 September 1953 in London) is a retired member of NATO. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium until his retirement in late September 2018.

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He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo War, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO. [1] He described the children and adult civilians killed by the NATO bombing of Serbia in the effort to prevent the Serbs from retaining Kosovo as the "cost to defeat an evil". [2]

He attended Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow, London [3] and received his B.A. (Hons.) in Modern History and French from the University of Sussex (1977) and his D.Phil. in Modern History from Lincoln College, Oxford (1981).

Shea was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to diplomacy and public service. [4]

Shea is married and has two children, Chiara and Alexander.

Positions within NATO

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
Director of Policy Planning
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division
Director of Information and Press
Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press.
Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer, Policy Planning Unit and Multilateral Affairs Section of the Political Directorate, NATO.
Speechwriter to the Secretary General of NATO.
Assistant to the Secretary General of NATO for Special Projects.
Head of External Relations Conferences and Seminars.
Head of Youth Programmes.
Administrator in Council Operations Section of Executive Secretariat.

Academic positions

Professor, College of Europe, Brugge
Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent.
Lecturer in the European Studies Program of the University of Antwerp.
Course instructor, Boston University, Massachusetts.
Member of the Advisory Council, International Relations Studies and Programme of Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Lecturer in Defence Studies, University of Lille.
Adjunct Associate Professor of International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University.
Director of the Michigan State University Summer School in Brussels.
Associate Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington, D.C.
Honorary Fellow of the Security and Strategy Institute, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
President of the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark.

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References

  1. "NATO can't be the global policeman: Jamie Shea". ABC Online . 18 May 2005. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  2. "Civilian deaths 'necessary price'". BBC News. 31 May 1999.
  3. "Sir George Monoux College - History and Alumni".
  4. "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N4.