Director of the Security Policy Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office of United Kingdom, London
Expertise:
• NATO Military Capabilities and Operations
• Non-proliferation and Arms Control
• European Security and Defence Policy
• NATO‘ Strategic Concept
Nick Pickard has been Head of Security Policy in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since June 2008. In this position he has responsibility for a wide range of international security issues, from NATO strategy, European defence policy, and crisis management operations and exercises, to the UK’s nuclear deterrence policy, nuclear disarmament and conventional arms control. He has supported the leading role the UK has played on disarmament, resulting in the publications “Lifting the Nuclear Shadow” and “The Road to 2010”, and a conference of the recognised nuclear-weapon states hosted in London in September. His team is also responsible for the UK’s involvement in counter-piracy off the Horn of Africa, including UK leadership of the EU naval mission, for the UK’s approach to the NATO Strategic Concept, and for wider European security initiatives including relations with Russia since the Georgia crisis.
• NATO Military Capabilities and Operations
• Non-proliferation and Arms Control
• European Security and Defence Policy
• NATO‘ Strategic Concept
Nick Pickard has been Head of Security Policy in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since June 2008. In this position he has responsibility for a wide range of international security issues, from NATO strategy, European defence policy, and crisis management operations and exercises, to the UK’s nuclear deterrence policy, nuclear disarmament and conventional arms control. He has supported the leading role the UK has played on disarmament, resulting in the publications “Lifting the Nuclear Shadow” and “The Road to 2010”, and a conference of the recognised nuclear-weapon states hosted in London in September. His team is also responsible for the UK’s involvement in counter-piracy off the Horn of Africa, including UK leadership of the EU naval mission, for the UK’s approach to the NATO Strategic Concept, and for wider European security initiatives including relations with Russia since the Georgia crisis.
