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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army)
Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden is a military professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He is Deputy Director of the Center’s Program for Advanced Security Studies, for which he also leads a seminar and teaches the elective “Principles of Modern Leadership.”

LTC (GS) v. Thaden was born July 26, 1963, in Mexico City. He joined the German Armed Forces Oct. 1, 1983. From 1993 to 1995 he commanded 2nd Co, 2 Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion in Hessisch-Lichtenau and from 1995 to 1998 he was Staff Officer for the German Army Table of Organization and Equipment, German Army Training Doctrine and Development Command. In 2000-2001 he served as G2 Operations Staff Officer at German Army IV Corps Headquarters in Potsdam and then deployed as Deputy G2 to the headquarters of Multinational Division Southeast, Stabilization Force (MNDSE, SFOR) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After his deployment he served as J3 Operations Staff Officer at the German Armed Forces Joint Operations Command in Potsdam until 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he was an Expert Staff Officer in the Political and Military Affairs Department, Fü S III 4, EU/WEU Branch of the German Ministry of Defense in Berlin. From 2004 to 2007 he was Assistant Military Attaché to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

LTC (GS) v. Thaden earned his degree as Mechanical Engineer (Dipl Ing univ.) at the University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg in 1990. He completed the General Staff Officers Course at the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg in 2000.

He has been awarded the German Armed Forces Cross of Honor in gold and silver, German Armed Forces SFOR Medal, NATO SFOR Medal, and German Civil Sporting Award in bronze and silver.

LTC (GS) v. Thaden’s areas of expertise are NATO, EU, the trans-Atlantic relationship, German foreign and security policy, and principles of modern leadership. In addition to German, he speaks English, Spanish, French and Dutch.

LTC (GS) v. Thaden is married and has two children.

Last updated: May 8, 2008