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ASC Board Announces Addition to Association's Patrons

21/06/11

 The Board of the Association of Security Consultants (ASC) is delighted to announce that Air Marshall Sir Stuart William Peach KCB, CBE, BA, MPhil, DTech, DLitt, FRAeS, RAF, has agreed to become one of the Patrons of the Association.  He joins esteemed stalwart ASC Patrons Lord Peter Imbert, Lord James Bethell, and Lord Brian MacKenzie.

Sir Stuart is a Senior Royal Air Force officer and has been Chief of Joint Operations since March 2009.  He was commissioned into the Royal Air Force as an acting pilot officer on 1 September 1974.

Following an undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield and an Mphil degree at the University of Cambridge, he became Director Defence Studies (Royal Air Force) from 1997 to 1999 and commissioned scholarship, edited books and wrote articles on air power in that role. In 1999 he was Assistant Director of the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of which he is a graduate.

He was Commander British Forces (Italy) 1999-2000 and NATO Air Commander (Forward) in Kosovo in 2000. He served as Commandant UK Air Warfare Centre and Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) at RAF Strike Command from 2000 to 2003. He was Director General Intelligence Collection in the Defence Intelligence Staff from July 2003 to March 2006. 

ASC Chairman Roy Sutherland said, "The ASC welcomes such a distinguished person as a Patron and we look forward to Sir Stuart's valued contribution to the Association".

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