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Latest revision as of 23:23, 11 January 2011
Brigadier James Ellery is a director of Aegis Defence Services.[1]
As an Army officer, Ellery commanded The Life Guards Regiment and served in the Middle East, Africa, Bosnia, Germany and Northern Ireland.[2] He also served as an aide-de-camp to Lord Mountbatten.[3]
In 1999 he established a UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. From 2001 to 2003 he was Chief of Staff to the UN Force in Sierra Leone.[4]
Coalition Provisional Authority
In 2003, Ellery served a Senior Adviser in the Coalition Provisional Authority(CPA) in Iraq.[5]
Journalist Robert Young Pelton, Ellery helped formulate the request for proposal that led to Aegis winning a major US security contract in Iraq:
- multiple sources with intimate knowledge of Aegis's bid have alleged to me that PMO (Project Management Office) security chief Brigadier Anthony Hunter-Choat and Brigadier General James Ellery helped formulate the specifications for the RFP with Aegis in mind.[6]
Acording to a former employee of the PMO interviewed by Pelton, Ellery advised Spicer throughout the process.[7]
Aegis
After leaving the CPA, joined Aegis, where he " set up and ran the AEGIS C3I Security Framework Operation throughout Iraq in support of US DoD funded Reconstruction."[8]
Sudan
In 2006, Ellery served as head of the UN mission in Southern Sudan before rejoining Aegis.[9]
Affiliations
- Aegis Defence Services
- Northern Gulf Partners - Advisory Board[10]
References
- ↑ Speaker Biographies, Iraq Mega Projects 2010, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Speaker Biographies, Iraq Mega Projects 2010, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Charles Moore, The very British gentleman helping to put southern Sudan back on its feet, The Telegraph, 25 September 2006.
- ↑ Speaker Biographies, Iraq Mega Projects 2010, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Speaker Biographies, Iraq Mega Projects 2010, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror, Crown, 2006, p.277.
- ↑ Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror, Crown, 2006, p.279.
- ↑ Speaker Biographies, Iraq Mega Projects 2010, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Speaker Biographies, Iraq Mega Projects 2010, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Executive Committee and Advisory Board, Northern Gulf Partners, accessed 23 November 2010.
