Colonel (Ret’d) John Casey, CD, Ph.D.
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 a 160-person directorate of defence civilians, US and Canadian military and a large contingent of contractors for NORAD and US Northern Command. This role required developing consensus among stakeholders from multinational partners as well as federal, state, FEMA, private sector, and other 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 greater 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 training program designed to help military veterans get their advanced drone pilot certificate and find work in the ever-expanding drone industry.
Currently, John volunteers on the Discipline Committee for the Law Society of New Brunswick, and the Lower Saint John River Hydro Community Liaison Committee.
John is married to Christa Greer who is the Executive Director of the New Brunswick Law Foundation.