Edgar Buckley

Senior Vice-President for EU, NATO and European Cooperation, Thales Group

Dr. Edgar Buckley currently is the Senior Vice President of Thales. He is also Director of Thales Raytheon System Ltd an Vice Chair of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium. He joined Thales in September 2003 following a career in the British governmental and international organisation service. From 1999 until 2003, he was the NATO Assistant Secretary General for the Defence Studies in 1990 and conducted and Efficiency Study on Defense Equipment Decision-Making and Reorganization Study on the Defence Policy Staff in 1991. Before joining the Ministry of Defence, he worked for a short period as a teacher in London, where he was born and educated. In 1999, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Bath.