As Event Director for the 2014 Wales Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), for M-is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I led the delivery of one of the largest gatherings of world leaders ever staged in the United Kingdom.
Hosted in Newport, Wales, the summit required one of the most extensive security operations undertaken in the UK in peacetime.
More than 60 Heads of State and Government attended, including Barack Obama, David Cameron and Angela Merkel.
The programme brought together representatives from all 28 NATO member states at the time, alongside approximately 70 Foreign Ministers, 70 Defence Ministers and more than 4,000 delegates and officials from around 60 countries.
It was a politically sensitive, logistically complex and globally scrutinised operation delivered under intense security, diplomatic and media pressure demonstrating delivery at geopolitical scale.
Photo: Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
