Pete Olive

A Senior Advisor to Herminius, Pete is a former senior naval officer and UK Ministry of Defence official specialising in operations and geostrategy. Most recently he led the production of the MoD’s Global Strategic Trends edition 7, which lays out the factors that will shape the world and inform UK (and multinational partners) geostrategic choices in the coming years.

He led or participated in the military contribution to the security of the London 2012 Olympic Games, operations in the Indo-Pacific with NATO, and other threat responses in the Euro-Atlantic, Africa and the Middle East. He has also served as Chief of Staff to the European Union’s counter-piracy mission, working closely with the shipping industry.

A graduate of Cambridge University, Pete is an alumnus of the Higher Command and Staff Course and Royal College of Defence Studies.