{"id":2419,"date":"2025-05-05T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geosenterprise.com\/david-omand\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:49:35","slug":"david-omand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.strategicstudies.it\/en\/about-us\/international-advisory-council\/david-omand\/","title":{"rendered":"David Omand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Visiting Professor &#8211; King&#8217;s College, London<\/em><\/strong>David Omand GCB is a visiting professor at King&#8217;s College London.\u00a0 He\u00a0 was appointed in 2002 as the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and \u201chomeland security\u201d. He served for seven years on the Joint Intelligence Committee.<br \/>\nHe was Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1997 to 2000, and before that Director of GCHQ. Previously, in the Ministry of Defence he served as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Policy, Principal Private Secretary to the Defence Secretary during the Falklands conflict, and served for three years in NATO Brussels as the UK Defence Counsellor.\u00a0He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he is an honorary fellow.\u00a0 He gained a First in maths and theoretical physics with the Open University in 2008. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Trustee of the Natural History Museum.\u00a0 He is a member of the editorial board of Intelligence and National Security.\u00a0 His book, Securing the State, was published in 2010 (London: C. 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