Graham Cundy OBE QCB served 25 years in the Royal Marines, twenty of which as a senior Special Forces officer providing specialist National Security advice. He Commanded the SBS between 2007 -2009 and is notable for leading the Western intervention in Afghanistan in support of the Northern Alliance immediately after 911.Graham is currently a senior British Civil Servant and was directly appointed by Michael Gove MP, the Secretary of State, the Department for Leveling Up Housing and Communities, as the Director of the Recovery Strategy Unit to pursue and prosecute those connected to the fire safety housing scandal in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy.He has recently been asked to establish a Delivery Unit within the Department to cut through obstacles to implement outcomes as part of the Government Levelling Up agenda.Before his recent appointments, he had over a decade of commercial experience. He was the CEO of Oxford Research and Analysis, an international consultancy specialising in strategic advice on cross multi- jurisdictional issues and frontier markets.Graham is a member of the international think tank, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He remains actively involved in foreign affairs and security sector reform and the utility of force.

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Britain and International Security: Allan Little quizzes the Former Head of the Special Boat Service, Col Graham Cundy, and Channel 4 Foreign Affairs Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, about Britain’s interventions in conflicts around the world. (2023)