Colonel (Ret’d) John Casey, CD, PhD
John was born and raised in St. Stephen, NB. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 17 years old and served 28 years as a helicopter pilot, instructor, and Commanding Officer.
Highlights of his career include deploying a Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle team to Afghanistan, coordinating Canada’s air relief effort for the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, serving as Commanding Officer to 408 Squadron in Edmonton Alberta, and as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Commander of NATO Allied Joint Forces Command in Naples, Italy.
John’s last military position was as Deputy Director of Joint Training and Exercises for NORAD and US Northern Command, a 160-person directorate of US & Canadian military, defence civilians, and a large contingent of contractors. This role required developing consensus among multinational partners as well as federal, state, FEMA, private sector, and non-governmental organizations.
John has served on numerous domestic operations and international deployments to Haiti in 1996, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1998 & 2000, and Afghanistan in 2006. Following his retirement in 2017, he travelled extensively through the Bahamas and the Caribbean.
John is a graduate of the Army Operations Course, Joint Command and Staff Program, and USAF Air War College. He holds a Bachelors of Military and Strategic Studies, a Masters of Defence Studies, a Masters of Strategic Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Ethical Leadership with Honours Distinction.
In 2019 John started his consulting career with courseware development, large-scale defence & security exercises, and professional development seminars with Central/South American & Caribbean participants. He also teaches a course that helps veterans get their advanced drone certificate and find work in the ever-expanding drone industry.
Currently, John sits on the Complaints Committee for the Law Society of New Brunswick, the Lower Saint John River Hydro Community Liaison Committee, the New Brunswick Crown Lands and Forestry Advisory Board, and is the Vice-Chair of the Provincial Firearms Advisory Committee.
John is married to Christa Greer, who is the Executive Director of the New Brunswick Law Foundation.