Organisation: Republicans Abroad
Location: Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knightsbridge
Timings: 6.30pm
Details: Brigadier James Ellery CBE and Matt Sherman will hold a panel
discussion on the Current Outlook in Iraq & Afghanistan with a view
to the future.
Cash bar, business attire.
Prior
to resuming his position on the Board of AEGIS in 2006, James Ellery
was for one year Head of the United Nations Mission in Southern Sudan.
In 2003 he was seconded by the Foreign Office as a Senior Adviser to
the Coalition Provisional Administration (in Baghdad) which
administered Iraq during the Occupation. After Transfer of Authority,
he set up and ran the 700-strong security framework operation in
support of the US-funded Reconstruction of Iraq.
Matt Sherman has had two extended tours
in Iraq. From January 2004 through December 2005, under the Coalition
Provisional Authority and later the Department of State, Mr. Sherman
advised both senior Iraqi and Coalition personnel on non-military
security matters relating to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. More
recently as a private contractor from November 2006 until December
2007, Mr. Sherman worked as the political advisor to the First Calvary
Division, the military unit in charge of operations throughout Baghdad.
Admission: £10 for non-members. Please RSVP: Louise at events@republicansabroad-uk.org
