A mission focused Defence and Security Enterprise: A whole-of-nation endeavour

4 March at 08:15 09:45 GMT

Our Geostrategy Forum convenes and connects prominent stakeholders for monthly breakfast discussions on key geostrategic issues and foreign, defence and international trade policy matters. A keynote speaker discusses a prominent topic before invited guests exchange their views and ideas in a roundtable format.

The Geostrategy Forum takes place once a month at the In and Out Naval and Military Club. Events are by invitation only and take place strictly off the record.

Keynote speaker

Air Cdre. Blythe Crawford CBE

Commandant, Air and Space Warfare Centre

Air Cdre. Blythe Crawford CBE is the Commandant of the Air and Space Warfare Centre. During his career, he participated in operational tours on 111(F) and XXV(F) Squadrons and the Tornado F3 Operational Conversion Unit. Promoted to Squadron Leader, he joined the Tactical Leadership Programme and later served as an F3 Flight Commander. Crawford also graduated from the Advanced Command and Staff College before taking up a strategic posting at the Pentagon. He later served as Officer Commanding Operations Wing at Royal Air Force (RAF) Leuchars and was deployed to Baghdad as Executive Officer to the Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division during OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE. Additionally, he led the rollout of the ‘Warfare in the Information Age’ initiative in Joint Forces Command, contributed to the United States Air Force’s innovation strategy and was the interoperability lead for the Multi-Domain Command and Control enterprise. Later, as Station Commander at RAF Leeming, he drove transformation programmes, including establishing the RAF Experimental Innovation Hub. A Professor in Practice at Durham University, Crawford holds Master’s degrees in international relations and defence studies.

Honorary chair

Dr Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE

Honorary Chair, Geostrategy Forum

Dr Carl Hunter OBE is Chairman of Coltraco Ultrasonics, a high-exporting advanced manufacturer. He is also: Chairman of the British Exporters Association; Director-General of the Durham Institute of Research, Development and Invention; Director of the Centre of Underwater Acoustic Analysis; Professor-in-Practice at Durham University Business School; Visiting Fellow of the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre; and Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology.

Venue

In and Out Naval and Military Club

4 St James’s Square
London,SW1Y 4JUUnited Kingdom
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Our members get preferential invitations to our Geostrategy Forum. To find out more about our membership packages, please visit our memberships page.

For further information about the Geostrategy Forum, please email Luca Hincks, Events and Operations Coordinator, at: [email protected].