Ronald Reichelderfer

Colonel (ret) Ron Reichelderfer, US Army, is currently the Director, Global Strategy Group in IPA. During his 30-year military career, Colonel Reichelderfer held a wide variety of command and staff positions including command of both infantry and aviation units. He commanded at the Platoon, Company, Battalion, and Brigade levels. As a senior national security strategist, he served as the Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Senior Strategist to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and Senior National Security Fellow on the Secretary of Defense Strategic Studies Group. In 2002, Mr. Reichelderfer founded the Global Strategy Group (GSG), a closely integrated team of former officers from the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce, Justice, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the private sector. The focus of the GSG is on improving cooperation between civilian, military, law enforcement, international and nongovernmental organizations while promoting government and private sector cooperation to address complex, emerging, global security challenges and their associated risks.