Edward Stringer

Edward Stringer is a former senior officer in the Royal Air Force who served as the Director General of the Defence Academy and Joint Force Development (DG JFD) until 2021. First commissioned in 1982, he initially served as a Jaguar pilot and weapons instructor, seeing action in the Gulf War, before holding successively more senior operational commands in the Balkans, Operation Northern Watch, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. In 2015, he was appointed as the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations), where he had responsibility for everything from flood-relief to the Nuclear Deterrent. While DG JFD he had responsibility for developing the conceptual elements of UK fighting power, including concepts, doctrine, training, and education. Air Marshal Stringer holds a BEng in Engineering from the University of Liverpool and an MA in International Relations from King’s College London. He regularly contributes to publications including the Financial Times, the Atlantic and the Daily Telegraph.