Tom Hardie-Forsyth

F.A.C.
Consultant and Specialist Trainer
Tom Hardie-Forsyth was a former Senior Official of the UK Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat’s Policy Directorate and Chairman of the NATO Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee. He holds Current Security Clearance to full SC.
 
Has lead on:
  • Policy development as Head of Government Department Mapping,
  • Planning Standards and audit for UK Emergency Planning.
 
Commissioned in The Royal Signals Regiment, he saw active service in the Gulf and Northern Iraq, where his experience has included:
  • Senior Adviser (Capacity Building) to the Prime Minister’s Office, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Erbil, Northern Iraq.  He remains adviser to KRG UK and US Representative offices.
  • Management of refugee repatriation and infrastructural reconstruction projects.
  • Reconstitution and rebuilding work in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, helping in rebuilding utilities, hospitals, mosques, and churches. 
  • Consulted on the Genocide Memory Project

​He is a graduate of the University of Hull with BSc (Hons) Physics, a Fellow of the Atlantic Council and a Member of Chatham House in London.

Teaching and Consultant experience includes:
  • DIRECTOR OF TRAINING on Civil and Military Co-Operation in Emergencies (CMCE)
  • Director of Training on Multi Agency Nuclear Emergency Response Seminars, workshops and field exercises (MANERS)

Both at UK Govt Emergency Planning College:  1995 – 2000
  • Director of Training UKMOD Mission to KRG  2006 – 2008
  • Director of Training KRG Prime Minister’s Delivery and Monitoring Unit (PMDMU) 2007 – 2010.

​In July 2019 he takes up an additional position as Non-Executive Director of Jasper Alliance London.