Bücher von Gilbert Greenall

Gilbert Greenall joined the British Army in 1973 completing his short service commission in 1976 at the age of 22. He then did a MBA course at INSEAD Fontainebleau and subsequently studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in A&E in 1989. He also learnt to fly, a skill needed during his first job in Africa. His career spans 40 years in the management of humanitarian emergencies and post conflict recovery. He has worked on 37 humanitarian emergencies, of which 18 were conflict-related. He has been Adviser to British Military Commanders in Northern Iraq, Bosnia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Macedonia, to the Commander of UNIFIL in Southern Lebanon, and the Deputy Commanders in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a member of the United Nations Disaster, Assessment and Co-ordination team since 1997. He was appointed CBE in 1993 and awarded an honorary doctorate in Medicine by the University of Bristol in 2006. Gilbert lives in Ledbury, Herefordshire.