From 2004: Senior Analyst, Learning Management, The Canadian Defence Academy
From 2002: Associate Professor (Adjunct) The Royal Military College of Canada
Manager, International Affairs National Research Council of Canada - Office for Foresight on Science and Technology
From 2001: Regional Advisor, Asia, The Royal Military College
of Canada Division of Continuing Studies
Associate Fellow, University of Calgary Institute for Strategic and Security
Studies
From 2000: Coordinator, Human Security Engineering/Manager
East Timor Operations
Maccaferri Asia – globally deployed; ground stabilization,
water control and human protection systems (to 2002)
From 1999: Vice President, Alliance for Capitalizing on Change – Alberta, Multi-disciplinary consultancy on shaping business futures
From 1998: Director-at-large, CAMEO - Canadian Association
for Mine and Explosive Ordnance Security, NGO
Faculty: Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training
Centre - Annapolis, Nova Scotia
From 1997: Director, Tingey & Associates Business Consultants, Singapore-based,
Canadian-owned consultancy for facilitating business with Asians in Asia
(to 1999)
Strategic Analyst, Canadian international gold-mining firm - Jakarta/Vancouver,
Political, security and social analyses
Subject Matter Expert, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade- The Ottawa Process (to 1998)
International Committee of the Red Cross - Jakarta, Minewarfare policy
and analyses (to 1997)
Contributor, FEER, Jane’s IAA, AWSJ, MilTEch, DPA, Vanc Sun , Jakarta Post,
Globe & Mail, Kingston Whig Standard
From 1996: International Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International
Studies – Jakarta, peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution Project (to 1997)
International Fellow, The National Resilience Institute LEMHANNAS – Jakarta,
workshops for the Board of Experts (to August 1996)
Before1996: Military Engineer Officer in the Canadian Forces
Professional Activity
From a base of Kingston, Ontario, David Harries does curriculum development, facilitation and teaching at Queen’s University Executive MBA programme, the Canadian Defence Academy, the Royal Military College and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre. On Science and Technology he participates in Foresight initiatives in Canada, Europe and Asia. He is vice President of a Canadian mine clearance NGO, a member of Canada Pugwash and the Australian National University Wise Owl’s Club, writes op-ed pieces, prepares strategic analyses for Canadian TNCs, and continues research on civil-military relations emphasizing the impact and evolution of the world’s seven major forms on governance, security and human security.
Professional Background
David Harries’ primary schooling was in Canada and England. Undergraduate education at two Canadian military colleges was followed by graduate studies in nuclear engineering in the UK, and advanced security and military courses at five institutions in Canada, the USA and Europe.
At the National Defence College of Canada, he helped produce and direct its last executives’ curriculum. He also refined a much-copied international field-study process and frameworks for analyzing relationships among government, security, civil society and business to determine their impact on national and human security. As the founding and last Director of Canada’s Centre for National Security Studies in Kingston, he helped create and provide its seminars and courses, and hosted high-level meetings on national issues.
David Harries moved to Asia in 1995 to work as a strategic analyst.
As the first non-Indonesian Fellow at LEMHANNAS, he led workshops in English
for senior staff on national, Asian and global issues. At CSIS Jakarta
in 1996 and 97, he set up a project to investigate and publicize the appropriateness
of an ASEAN “peacekeeping centre”. During this period he began advising
institutions and businesses on competency, transparency and risk. As senior
strategic analyst for a major player in Indonesia’s Busang-BreX gold saga,
he gained extensive knowledge of high politics and big business.
Committed to lifelong learning across disciplines, he returned to Canada
early in 2002 when Asian, particularly Indonesian, circumstances made continuing
as an independent consultant and educator in SE Asia too unpredictable
and costly.
In the last decade he has attended and contributed to more than a hundred courses and conferences world-wide, written more than 100 articles, op-eds and analyses, and given – alone or with colleagues - more than 80 formal lectures, presentations, workshops and simulations on subjects as diverse as Indonesia, business cultures, peacebuilding, Pacific Asia, human security, transnational crime, international business practises, culture in conflict, curriculum development and education.
His primary research interests are military-civilian relations in governance
and business, and, science and technology as a tool for exploring and exploiting
change.
As a military officer, he served in operational national, continental,
NATO and United Nations positions in airborne, combat engineer, peacekeeping
and development settings. He commanded international contingents in two
"wars"; Cyprus in 1974 and the former Yugoslavia in 1993 where, as Force
Engineer for the UN, he led the planning and deployment for Slovakia’s
first foreign operation; a hybrid heavy engineering unit for UNPROFOR.
He has planned and directed engineering in Canada and abroad for disaster
recovery, post-conflict rehabilitation, and capacity development.
David Harries is an Associate or Fellow of three international and
strategic studies centres in Canada, and a registered Professional Engineer.
He has lived in 16 countries and paid one to 20 working visits to another
89 states.
Last updated: March 2004
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