Jamie Shea
Jamie Patrick Shea was Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium until his retirement in late September 2018.
He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo War, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO. He described the civilians killed by the NATO bombing of Serbia in the effort to prevent the Serbs from retaining Kosovo as the "cost to defeat an evil".
He received his B.A. in Modern History and French from the University of Sussex and his D.Phil. in Modern History from Lincoln College, Oxford.
Shea was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to diplomacy and public service.
Shea is married and has two children, Chiara and Alexander.Positions within NATO
- October 2010 – September 2018
- August 2005 – October 2010
- April 2003 – August 2005
- October 2000 – March 2003
- 1993–2000
- 1991–1993
- 1988–1991
- 1985–1988
- 1982–1985
- 1980–1982
Academic positions
- As of 2006
- 1993 onward
- 1991 onward
- 1988 onward
- 1987–1990
- 1987 onward
- 1985 onward
- 2014 onward
