Sir Roger Tustin Jackling KCB

Order of the Bath

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 CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 is a former British Civil Servant who served as the first Director of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

Career

Educated at New York University

New York University

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 and Oxford University, Jackling joined the Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

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 in 1969. He was appointed a Fellow of the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1985 and Principal of the Civil Service College in 1986. He went on to be Deputy Under-Secretary (Resources, Programmes & Finance) and then Second Permananent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 1997. He was appointed Director of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom on its formation in 2002.