Richard Shirreff

Sir Richard Shirreff graduated from Exeter College, Oxford (Modern History) before being commissioned into the British Army from Sandhurst. In his 37-year career, he commanded soldiers on operations at every level from platoon to division. This has included combat in the Gulf War of 1991 as a tank squadron leader and again in Iraq as a divisional commander, together with other operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Bosnia. His final military assignment was NATO’s 4 Star Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In February 2016 he co-founded Strategia Worldwide Ltd, a global risk advisory company. In 2016 his novel 2017: War with Russia was published in the UK, USA and Poland. It became a best seller and has been translated into eight languages. He is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.