Major-General G G Messervy-Whiting, CBE

Career: cmmnd Intelligence Corps 1967; regtl duty incl: 1 KOSB and service in Germany, Libya, Cyprus and Hong Kong, cmd Intelligence and Security Gp Germany 1986-88; staff duty incl: plans offr N Ireland 1978-80, Secretariat of Chiefs of Staff MOD 1984-86, briefing offr to NATO Supreme Allied Cmd Europe 1988-91; mil advsr to Lord Owen as co-chm Int Conf on Former Yugoslavia 1992-93, promoted Brig 1993, res fell Centre for Def Studies KCL 1993, Dir Def Commitments Overseas (Far E and W Hemisphere) MOD 1994-95, Dep Dir and COS then Dir Western European Union PC 1995-98, asst dir operations GCHQ 1998-2000, promoted Maj-Gen 2000, COS European Union Military Staff 2000-03, dep dir Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy Univ of Birmingham 2003-; memb War Pensions Appeals Tbnl 2005-; assoc fell Chatham House 2003-07; memb Game Conservancy; MIL, MInstD, FCMI, fell RUSI