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Emergency Management and Leadership
Robert Tailyour - Emergency (Command)
- Six years of Command and Control training for OCTO, plus a range of Crisis and Leadership client counselling experience
- Formerly a Brigadier Royal Marines, commander of 42 Commando in the Arctic role, commanded the Royal Marines Officers Training School
- Attended the Royal College of Defence Studies for selected senior British and overseas officers and civil servants (1992)
- Senior post in Ministry of Defence planning staff during Gulf War.
James Jenkin FIstLM, MAPM - Emergency (Command)
- Lead tutor on emergency management training courses and seminars
- 29 years experience as nuclear submarine warfare officer
- broad external communications experience in MoD during 911attacks, loss of submarine Kursk and Afghan wars
- specialist in operational analysis and audit of capability
Terry Loughran, CB - Emergency - Leadership
- Long experience in emergency planning, management and contingencies, founded upon full naval and aviation career experience
- Current work for OCTO focused in crisis management and leadership fields in nuclear industry
- Tutor on emergency management training seminars and exercises
- Defence consultant on aviation, personnel and human factors
- Chairman of Independent Review Panel for the BAE/Thales/MoD alliance to build future large aircraft carriers
- Previous command aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL
- Concluded Naval career as head of Naval Aviation in the rank of Rear Admiral
Vladek Cirin Bsc
- Periodic secondment to OCTO as specialist nuclear emergency management expert
- Head of Risk Management and County Emergency Planning Officer, Bedfordshire County Council
- Thirty year career in Royal Navy as nuclear power and nuclear weapons specialist, latterly responsible for supervising emergency management matters at RN nuclear sites and associated activities
- Prior to this, five years in aviation industry as aerodynamicist and technical sales communications pilot.
Phil Moore - Emergency (Explosives)
- Specialist in explosives issues
- Thirty eight year career as weapons specialist, including ordnance, bomb disarmament and disposal, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare
- Project Manager for the installation of OASIS, the Royal Navy's integrated IT management system
- Helicopter co-pilot during Falklands campaign; Chief Flying Instructor (gliding); pilots own aircraft (Auster).
Stewart Thompson - Emergency (Logistics and Pacific Rim)
- Specialist in scenario management and in Far East client liaison
- Formerly Royal Naval chief staff officer for war plans, nuclear accident training and exercises ashore, Naval Attaché in Tokyo and logistics staff officer for the landing force during the Falklands campaign
- After leaving the Royal Navy, co-opted from industry as an adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry on Japan and South Korea.