Jamie Shea

Jamie Shea

Jamie Patrick Shea (born 11 September 1953 in London) is Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo War, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO.^[1] He described the civilians killed by the NATO bombing of Serbia in the effort to prevent the Serbs from retaining Kosovo as the "cost to defeat an evil".^[2]

He received his B.A. (Hons.) in Modern History and French from the University of Sussex (1977) and his D.Phil. in Modern History from Lincoln College, Oxford (1981).

Shea is married and has two children, Chiara and Alexander.

Positions within NATO

• October 2010 -

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges

• August 2005 - October 2010

Director of Policy Planning

• April 2003 - August 2005

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division

• October 2000 - March 2003

Director of Information and Press

• 1993 - 2000

Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press.

• 1991 - 1993

Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer, Policy Planning Unit and Multilateral Affairs Section of the Political Directorate, NATO.

Speechwriter to the Secretary General of NATO.

• 1988 - 1991

Assistant to the Secretary General of NATO for Special Projects.

• 1985 - 1988

Head of External Relations Conferences and Seminars.

• 1982 - 1985

Head of Youth Programmes.

• 1980 - 1982

Administrator in Council Operations Section of Executive Secretariat.

Academic positions

• As of 2006 (start dates unknown)

Professor, Collège d’Europe, Bruges

Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent.

• 1993 onward

Lecturer in the European Studies Program of the University of Antwerp.

• 1991 onward

Course instructor, Boston University, Massachusetts.

• 1988 onward

Member of the Advisory Council, International Relations Studies and Programme of Université Libre de Bruxelles.

• 1987 - 1990

Lecturer in Defence Studies, University of Lille.

• 1987 onward

Adjunct Associate Professor of International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University.

Director of the Michigan State University Summer School in Brussels.

• 1985 onward

Associate Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington DC.

References

1. "NATO can't be the global policeman: Jamie Shea". ABC Online. 18 May 2005. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
2. "Civilian deaths 'necessary price'". BBC News. 31 May 1999.