Dr. Simon de Saint-Claire
Consultant, trainer
He is a well-known facilitator of international security sector development, focusing on security sector reform, international crisis management and post-conflict development.
A former New Zealand Army officer, for more than a decade Simon subcontracted to the United Nations Secretariat, providing field-based strategic services. Since 2002, he has provided independent field advice, facilitation and research to intergovernmental actors, national police authorities, government development agencies, international police missions, technical assistance NGOs and the private security sector.
Simon has an interdisciplinary academic and research background in the social sciences (international relations, strategic studies, socio-cultural anthropology, human geography), human rights legislation and democratic policing.
