Jamie Shea

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Jamie Patrick Shea is Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

He was born 11 September 1953 in London, Britain and is a British citizen. He is married and has two children.

He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo war, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO (as did his distinctively London accent). There was some criticism of his overtly clinical style in describing the prosecution of the war.

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

[edit] NATO positions

• August 2005 -

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.

[edit] Academic positions

• 1988 -

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

• 1985 -

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

• 1987 - 1990

Lecturer in Defence Studies, University of Lille.

• 1987 -

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

Director of the Michigan State University Summer School in Brussels.

• 1991 -

Course instructor, Boston University, Massachusetts.

• 1993 -

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

• As of 2006 (start dates unknown)

Professor, Collège d’Europe, Bruges

Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent