Brigadier Chris Gent

Brigadier Chris Gent commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1998 and was posted to Hohne, Germany, to join 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. He has served a varied career with multiple global training and operational deployments, and began his NATO pathway in 2021 with attendance at the Senior Course at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he was proud to be a member of the committee winning the Eisenhower Award academic prize with their study on Emerging & Disruptive Technologies and their impact for NATO.

He has served as DCOS Transformation & Integration at HQ Allied Land Command since 2024, and now heads Task Force X – Eastern Flank Deterrence Line, which is an innovation project to explore how new technologies can be integrated into existing structures to provide better capability options for Allies.