Tom Young

Background

About Tom Young

Program Manager, Europe Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is also Academic Associate for the Comparative Defense Planning Certificate in the Department of National Security Affairs. His responsibilities at CCMR are to develop and manage the execution of defense planning and change management advice and assistance projects throughout Central and Eastern Europe. He has worked in the national defense organizations of every country in Central and Eastern Europe, save one. Some of the key reform projects he has managed include the oversight of comprehensive defense planning and change management projects in Estonia Ukraine (2003-2013), Moldova (2004-2008), Bulgaria (2008-2011), Serbia (2010-present), and Montenegro (2011-present). He developed and executed the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Institution Building survey and road-map development process from 2008-2010. From spring 2010 to the end of 2011, Dr Young led a major effort to support Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov in the conduct of a far-reaching Bulgarian Force Structure Review that seeks to transform the defense organization into one that is in full accordance with NATO nations’ norms. In addition to these duties he has been active in staying engaged with the Australian defense organization, as well as the antipodean defense community.