Colonel (Retired) John Kedar CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Employer: Ministry of Defence Memo: Colonel John Kedar FInstRE, FRGS, CGeog is a serving officer in the British Army. He has followed a career that has seen a multitude of operational deployments across Belize, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as more traditional roles in UK, Cyprus and Germany. Early in his career he joined the Survey (now Geographical) Branch of the Royal Engineers, passed the Army Survey Course (now an MSc Course) and most of his employment over the last 20 years has been in that field. This included being the professional head of the Branch, responsible for the development of its future capabilities and the leadership of this specialist organisation.