Mark Etherington

Mark Etherington was brought up in Kuwait and Qatar and
educated at York and Cambridge Universities and the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst. He served six years in the
British Army’s Parachute Regiment, including two tours of
Northern Ireland. He was seconded to the European
Community’s Monitor Mission in former Yugoslavia during the
1992–1995 war and has subsequently worked in Croatia,
Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He was
appointed CBE in December 2004.