Steve Jermy

Steve Jermy is a retired Royal Navy commodore with 28 years of service, who left the navy in 2010 after a career spanning carrier aviation, sea command and senior staff posts. He saw active service in the Falklands War and deployed to the Caribbean, Bosnia and Kosovo; his commands included HM Ships Arrow and Cardiff, the 5th Destroyer Squadron and the Fleet Air Arm, and his last operational tour was in 2007 as Strategy Director at the British Embassy in Kabul. Staff roles included the Ministry of Defence policy planning directorate and Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of Defence Staff. He holds a degree in applied maths and physical oceanography from Bangor and an MPhil in international relations from Cambridge, and wrote "Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century" (2011). After the navy he moved into offshore energy, as CEO of Celtic Sea Power and chair of the Celtic Sea Cluster for floating offshore wind. He now writes the Substack "Mor Gallos", contributes to Responsible Statecraft and appears as a guest on independent shows.