Tony Welch
Lecturer
Location: Wellington Hall
T: +44 1793 785 020
Department of Management and Security
Background
Before joining the Centre for Security Sector Management Tony Welch worked in the military and with international organisations undertaking peacebuilding and development roles. He served in the British Army for twenty-three years in Europe, the Middle East and the South Atlantic. He is a graduate of the British Army Staff College and the Higher Command & Staff Course. He taught at both the Army and RAF Staff Colleges.
After taking early retirement in 1993, in the rank of Brigadier, he joined the United Nations and was appointed Head of Joint Policy Planning and Coordination for the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the former Yugoslavia. He later joined the European Community Monitor Mission and was head of the Regional Offices in Albania and Serbia & Montenegro. He then moved to the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR/OSCE) with responsibility for the monitoring of presidential and parliamentary elections throughout the Balkans region.
In 1998 he joined the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) as their Conflict and Security Adviser, undertaking missions in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, South Africa, the Solomon Islands and the Balkans. On the conclusion of the conflict in Kosovo, he was appointed Head of the DFID Office in Pristina and later became the United Nations Administrator of Kosovo’s northern region. In 2006 he coordinated the Internal Security Sector Review of Kosovo. During 2007 -2009 he acted as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on justice and security matters and the European Agency for Reconstruction on economics in post-conflict states.
He hold post-graduate degrees from the University of Portsmouth and is about to defend his PhD thesis. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Trustee of the Centre for South East European Studies, Trustee of Vencorp Private Equity Partners, Member of the Armed Forces Law Association of New Zealand and a Governor of South Downs College in Hampshire.
