Colin King
Colin King graduated from Sandhurst in 1981 and served for 14 years in the British Army. Most of his career was in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), with operational service including the Falklands, the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. He also led the first British Army team to train Afghan deminers during the UN Operation Salam. In addition to field work, he was an instructor at the British EOD school and spent six years working as the sole EOD analyst on foreign munitions for the Ministry of Defence. He left the army after serving as a Squadron Commander with the Gurkhas in Hong Kong, and founded a consultancy company specialising in the technical aspects of EOD. He now edits the IHS/Jane’s reference yearbooks Mines and Mine Clearance and Explosive Ordnance Disposal. Operational work, training and national programme assessments have led to experience in a wide range of countries, including Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Moldova, Oman, Rwanda and Yemen. He was a technical advisor to the recent Oslo Process which led to the Convention on Cluster munitions, and is currently engaged on a number of programs related to the disposal of landmines and cluster munitions.
Melanie Rovery
Melanie Rovery joined IHS/Jane’s in 1997, working within the land/sea/air
portfolio of reference titles. During this time she has gained valuable knowledge within the defence equipment industry. She has spent the past three years solely involved in the land area of the company at a managerial level for a number of land publications. Melanie took over the Equipment and Services sections of Jane’s Mines and Mine Clearance and Jane’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal at the beginning of 2007. Melanie previously edited Jane’s Simulation and Training Systems for just over two years and has contributed to Jane’s International Defence Review.
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