David N. Griffiths (maritime policy expert)

David Griffiths is an independent consulting analyst who specializes in international aspects of confidence, cooperation, and capacity building, with a particular focus on maritime and coastal zone issues. A former Canadian naval officer, he spent fifteen of his thirty-one years in uniform at sea in ships and submarines, and the remainder in staff appointments that included personnel policy, project management, operational planning, and doctrine development, for which he received a Maritime Commander’s Commendation in 1996. In 1992–93 he was seconded to the European Community Monitoring Mission in the Balkans, where he became head of the Coordination Centre, responsible for operations in Eastern Herzegovina, Montenegro, and the southern Dalmatian coast of Croatia. Between 1993 and 1996 his duties included service as a naval adviser to the Middle East Peace Process. Mr. Griffiths left the navy in 1996 to establish an independent consultancy that conducts varied projects in Canada and internationally. He is a resident research fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University and a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Emergency Management Studies at Cape Breton University (Canada), the National Centre of Maritime Policy Research at Bahria University (Karachi, Pakistan), and the International Ocean Institute (Canada). He also serves on the boards of directors of the Emergency Management Association of Atlantic Canada and of the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, which preserves the last surviving Second World War corvette. Mr. Griffiths is a graduate of the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College and holds a master’s degree in marine manage- ment from Dalhousie University -https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D208-PURL-gpo130144/pdf/GOVPUB-D208-PURL-gpo130144.pdf

• Maritime aspects of arms control and security improvements in the Middle East (IGCC policy papers)
• U.S.-China maritime confidence building