Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb KBE, CMG, DSO
Senior Advisor (International)
Senior Advisor to ACE, contributing senior military experience and strategic counsel to its defence mission.
Biography
Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb KBE, CMG, DSO is a retired British Army officer who served from 1973 to 2009. He commanded conventional, airborne, and Special Forces units across virtually every major UK international operation, including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He served as Director of UK Special Forces from 2001 to 2003. He was promoted major general in 2003 as General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division for the Iraq War. In 2006 he was promoted lieutenant general as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force Iraq.
In 2009, at the direct request of U.S. Generals David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal, he moved to Afghanistan to lead a reconciliation programme modelled on his earlier work driving the Sunni “Awakening” in Iraq. His decorations include the CMG (2003), the DSO (2004), the KBE, and the U.S. Legion of Merit (2009). Since retiring, he has held an operating partner role with C5 Capital and board positions with Concord Resources, Minera Adularia, and MKS PAMP Group, and he chairs the Advisory Council of ITC, a London-based cyber security firm. At ACE, he serves as Senior Strategic-Level Advisor.