Roger Golland
Roger James Adam Golland OBE was a UK diplomat (MI6 officer) who is also a fellow of the Institute for Statecraft, where his job is "Govt-NGO relation building", described as "Russian methodologies; security risk assessment; evaluation of hostile environments".[1]
Career
"Golland served for 32 years in HM Diplomatic Service, including tours in Ankara, Budapest, Buenos Aires and Brussels and stints as a Director in London. In recent years he has delivered capacity-building programmes to government partners overseas. He was Chair of the campaigning charity Transform Drugs Policy Foundation from 2012 – 2017 and is a trustee of Release.[2] Roger is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Statecraft and an active participant in other think-tanks. He is married to Jane, a schoolteacher, and lives in west Kent."[3]
He is the director of Viasol Limited[4] The company, where "Integrity and loyalty is vital" describes itself as "the leader in delivering strategic intelligence advice to the public sector".[5] The Viasol website hasn't been updated since 2017.
The Integrity Initiative/Leak/3 summarises Golland as follows:
- Formerly Director Western Europe for a government agency close to the FCO; previously Director Training for the same institution; continues to undertake work in this area. Expert in Russian methodologies; Special ability to assist in bringing together NGOs and relevant national governmental bodies (ministries, special services); security risk assessment; evaluation of hostile environments and governmental communities in countries where we will be operating. German linguist[6]
Roger Golland's name was marked (DV), meaning "Developed Vetting", together with Diane Allen, Josh Arnold-Foster, Perry Fawcett, Phil Jolley, Steve Johnson, Andy Settle, and Andrew Shortland.[7]
He is listed among "IfS Core and specialist Staff" on an Integrity Initiative invitation list for "NGW" seminars,[8] and is among the people suggested as participants in a planning note for a Nigeria round table in March 2018, along with "SGMI/77 Bde".[9]
Awards
Golland was given an O.B.E. in the 1993 New Year Honours.[10]
Affiliations
References
- ↑ Institute for Statecraft, Tor Team, undated, among Integrity Initiative documents published by Anonymous, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.release.org.uk/trustees
- ↑ https://www.britishspanishsociety.org/governance/
- ↑ https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/structure/international-security-department/drugs-and-organized-crime-project
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191026064903/http://www.viasol.co.uk/
- ↑ |source_URL=https://www.pdf-archive.com/2018/12/13/the-institute-for-statecraft-expert-team-v-3/ |source_name=Integrity Initiative Leak 3 |source_title=The Institute for Statecraft Expert Team v 3.pdf |authors=Unknown |date=2018
- ↑ http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative
- ↑ NGW seminars invitation list, undated, among Integrity Initiative documents published by Anonymous, 2018.
- ↑ Nigeria Round Table 15 03 2018, planning note, among Integrity Initiative documents published by Anonymous.
- ↑ The London Gazette, supplement 53153, p. 17, 31 December 1992, accessed 5 November 2026: "Roger James Adam GOLLAND, lately First Secretary, H.M. Embassy, Buenos Aires".