Björn Lagerlöf
Senior Advisor to Commander of the Canadian Defence Academy
Canadian Armed Forces
Canadian Defence Academy
About
Mr. Björn Lagerlöf is the Senior Advisor to the Commander of the Canadian Defence Academy and Director of the Commander’s Advisory Group. He is responsible for leading the development and delivery of strategic corporate initiatives, overseeing the Academy’s defence diplomacy and international capacity building efforts, and advising the Commander on the Academy’s operations and engagement plans.
Mr. Lagerlöf joined the Department of National Defence (DND) in 2007 and has held numerous positions as a Policy Officer, Program Manager, Speech Writer and Senior Policy Advisor. He has deployed in support of Canadian Armed Forces operations, including to Afghanistan in 2010 and has led several oversees engagements in Ukraine and Iraq in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Defence Education Enhancement Programme (DEEP).
In 2012, Mr. Lagerlöf joined the Department of Industry, as one of the lead policy analysts responsible for developing Canada’s Defence Procurement Strategy. He returned to DND in late 2014 and assumed his current position in September 2017. Mr. Lagerlöf’s main research interests are focused on security force capacity building and security force assistance.