Mr Nicholas Beadle

Nicholas Beadle

Co-opted by the Court

CMG, MBA, LLB

Memberships of professional bodies

  • International Institute of Strategy Studies

External appointments

  • Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI think Tank, London
  • Hon. Prof. Exeter University
  • Non-Exec Director, Region Properties Group
  • Chairman, lily.co

Education

  • LLB, Newcastle
  • MBA, Heriot-Watt University
  • Fellow at Harvard

Career history

  • Thomson Newspapers, 1978
  • Dir, companies of the late Jack Calvert, 1990
  • UK Hydrographic Office, 1997
  • RCDS 2002
  • NATO 2003
  • EU and UN Policy, 2004
  • Sen. Advr to Iraqi MoD, Baghdad, 2004-05
  • Private Sec. to Sec. of State for Defence, 2006-07
  • Fellow, Harvard Univ., 2007-08
  • Dir Cabinet Office, Govt Afghanistan Strategy, 2008
  • Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister, 2009
  • Adviser to Cabinet Office, Middle East and North Africa, 2011

Areas of research

  • Reform of the Multinational Institutions
  • Global News Networks
  • SMART Power

Interests and hobbies

  • Writing, Painting