Glevum Associates
Gillian Opray Chris Fox Maria Sepanmaa Alan McCormack
Glevum USA is an American based "market research" company. [1]
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Description of Glevum's Work
Gillian
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Ownership and Personnel
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Andrew Garfield founded the Glevum Associates in 2006 [2]. He has wide expertise in the fields of Counter Terrorism (CT), Counter Insurgency (COIN), Psychological Warfare (PSYOP), Information Operations (IO) and Strategic Communications (SC).
Mr Garfield has worked both for the UK and US governments. In the UK he served as a British military officer and a senior civilian intelligence officer, and his last UK government post was as a policy adviser in the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) where he also became the first IO Staff Officer in the mid 1990s [3]. Since emigrating to the United States in 2004 he has worked exclusively for US clients, the most important ones of these being the US Department of Defence (DoD), the US Army, and the Department of State.
The private companies that Mr Garfield has been involved with have often been contracted to work for the governmental defence sector. The companies he has worked for include the Lincoln Group and the Terrorism Research Center where he serves as a European Director. Currently he is a member of two independent think tanks, the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) where he is a Senior Fellow, and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) where he was appointed as the US Director in 2008 [4].
Mr Garfield is also engaged in teaching and research. After leaving the UK government post in 2002 Mr Garfield became a Deputy Director of International Policy Institute at King's College London from which position he lectured and consulted on international security issues in the UK and the US [5]. In the US he lectures extensively including for the US Army, National Defence University, the Naval Postgraduate School [6], the Defence Intelligence Agency and Fourth Psychological Operations Group [7]. He has also undertaken several research projects for example leading three major projects for the DoD on counter terrorism and counter insurgency [8], and a joint UK and US study regarding a strategy to reform the Afghan National Police and wider Afghan justice sector. He contributes regularly to academic journals, including the Wall Street Journal, ORBIS (a Foreign Policy Research Institute’s quarterly journal of world affairs) and Middle East Quarterly.
Globalisation:Paul Serotkin - Executive Vice President, Operations and Finance
Globalisation:Alicia Boyd - Executive Vice President, Research
Colonel Jeff Haynes, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) - Vice President, Business Development
Pascale Combelles Siegel - Senior Research Scientist
Laurie J. Adler - Senior Public Affairs Advisor
Links to the US Military
Chris Pages saved for later http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/18-10-2010/115399-defense_contractors_circles_of_hell-0/ (recent) http://www.rusi.org/about/staff/ref:B47FF6E8EDD7D4/ (biog of Andrew Garfield
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Glevum is a military contractor first and foremost, despite their public focus on social science research; their actual practices have been dismissed in particular by anthropologists. [9]
A poll of Afghanis conducted by Glevum in July 2009 in the build up to the Afghanistan election of which they forecast a comfortable victory for Hamid Karzai, a study financed by the US Government, who was also seen to be America’s favoured choice for Afghan President.
Vice President Andrew Garfield has held senior roles in British military and then as a civilian intelligence officer. He is a visiting lecturer at military academies and universities on PSYOPS (psychological warfare) throughout Europe, and has also been involved in the training of senior US Army and Marine Commanders and their staffs on psychological warfare and ethnographic intelligence gathering.[10] Garfield and Senior PR Advisor Laurie Adler are former employees of the Lincoln Group, where they filled similar roles. Lincoln was uncovered to be paying Iraqi newspapers to publish propaganda and articles written by US troops, edited by Lincoln IOs to downplay any negative American involvement in 2005. At Lincoln, Garfield worked alongside Andrea Jackson, credited by some for devising the HTS, & Laurie Adler, Lincolns PR Spokeswoman. Glevum’s official website makes no mention or association of the pairs involvement with the Lincoln Group or any resultant controversy.
Criticism
Contact
Notes
- ↑ "Glevum Associates - Why Glevum,", accessed 05 October 2010
- ↑ "Glevum Associates Leadership Team", accessed 12/10/2010
- ↑ "[1]", accessed 08/11/2010
- ↑ “ RUSI [2]”, accessed 04/11/2010
- ↑ "[ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/442/JIW1_32.pdf] Journal of Information Warfare (2002) Vol 1 Issue 3", accessed 08/11/2010
- ↑ "Glevum Associates Leadership Team", accessed 12/10/2010
- ↑ "[3]", accessed 08/11/2010
- ↑ “[4]” Foreign Policy Research Institute, accessed 04/11/2010
- ↑ "Zero Anthropology - Andrew Garfield’s Commercial Plea for War Research, and the Reality of Ethics in Human Terrain Teams,", accessed 02 November 2010
- ↑ "Public Propaganda",, The Human Terrain System, and Staged Democracy in Afghanistan]", Zero Anthropology, accessed 26 October 2010
