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Sponsoring
Nations
The Sponsoring Nations (SNs) are the NATO Member States that are collectively participating in the NATO SP COE providing personnel, equipment, funding and other necassary resources.
As today the NATO SP COE Sponsoring Nations are the following:
International Relationships, Strategic-Military studies, Law Enforcement, Criminal Investigations, Organized Crime Investigations, Stability Policing and Stability Policing-related matters, Civil Protection Crisis Management, International Police Cooperation, International Humanitarian Law, Advanced Police Tactical Procedures, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrolling, Public Security Management, Operational Planning.
Luigi Bramati is a Colonel of the Italian Carabinieri Corps.
In 1994, Col. Luigi Bramati completed his high school classical three-year curriculum at the Military High School “Nunziatella”, in Naples, and then joined the Italian Military Academy. He consequently attended a three-year course at the Carabinieri Officers Academy in Rome, from which he graduated in 1999. In the same year, he graduated in Law from the “Sapienza” University of Studies of Rome. In 2003, he graduated in Political Sciences from the University of Studies “San Pio V” of Rome, and in 2004 in “Internal and External Security Science” from the “Tor Vergata” University of Studies of Rome. During the academic year 2014/2015, he attended the Italian Joint Defense Staff College Course (ISSMI Course) at the Center for Advances Studies of the Italian Defense (CASD), and was awarded a master’s degree in International and Strategic-Military Studies from the “Roma-tre” University.
He was also awarded the title of Defense Legal Advisor in 2015.
He has held various duty positions in Italy and abroad, including in Iraq in 2003 as Deputy Provost Marshal of the Multinational Division South-East in Basra, and in 2006 as International Police Advisor and Staff Officer within the Civilian Police Assistance and Training Team in Baghdad.From 2009 to 2015, he served within the Carabinieri HQ National Operations Room, where he was appointed as Chief of the “Situation Awareness” Section. From 2016 to 2019, he served as Assistant Defense and Defense Cooperation Attaché of the Italian Embassy to the United States, in Washington, DC. Following his three-year tenure as the Carabinieri Provincial Headquarters’ Commanding Officer in Avellino (Southern Italy), as of June 29th, 2023, he is Director of the Stability Policing Centre of Excellence (NATO SP COE), in Vicenza (North-Eastern Italy).
He is author, among other articles and essays, of a research paper published in 2021 by the Center of Military Strategic Studies (Ce.Mi.S.S.) of the Italian Defense, titled “Iraq, 2003-2009: Lessons Learned from the Chilcot Commission, Where Stability Policing Could Have Made a Difference. Ten Considerations for Planners and Commanders”.
Born in 1975, he shares with his wife Stephanie and their three children the love for travel and outdoor sport activities.
Fields of Expertise: International Relationships, Strategic-Military studies, Law Enforcement, Criminal Investigations, Organized Crime Investigations, Stability Policing and Stability Policing-related matters, Civil Protection Crisis Management, International Police Cooperation, International Humanitarian Law, Advanced Police Tactical Procedures, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrolling, Public Security Management, Operational Planning.
He was born in Istanbul in 1977. He attended Isiklar Military High School in Bursa and Turkish Military Academy in Ankara, before he was commissioned as a Gendarmerie officer in 1999.
Since then, he has 23-year law enforcement experience in many branches of law enforcement missions on theater.
During his duty, he served in the management of commando, border security and Tactical and Operative UAV units, leadership ensuring public order and security of district and province and international missions. He participated ‘‘Operation Althea’’ at EUFOR/NATO as Human Intelligence Team Leader in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014 and he served as Staff Officer for ‘‘Resolute Support Mission’’ at NATO in Kabul/Afghanistan in 2015.
As of 2022, he holds the rank of Colonel.
Education
1991-1995 High School, Quantitative, Isiklar Military High School, Bursa, Turkey
1995-1999 Bachelor’s Degree, Systems Engineering, Turkish Military Academy, Ankara, Turkey
2017-2021 Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations (English), Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Anadolu University Eskisehir, Turkey
Job Experience
2000-2002 Team Commander, Gendarmerie Schools Command, Ankara, Turkey
2002-2004 Border Security Company Commander, Sirnak, Turkey
2004-2009 District Gendarmerie Commander, Law Enforcement Chief of District, Elmadag, Ankara, Turkey
2009-2011 District Gendarmerie Commander, Law Enforcement Chief of District, Andirin, Kahramanmaras, Turkey
2011-2013 Head of Operations and Training Department, Commando Regiment Command, Patnos, Agri, Turkey
2013-2016 Staff Officer, Operations Center of Gendarmerie General Command, Ankara, Turkey
2014 (Six months) Human Intelligence Team Leader, ‘‘Operation Althea’’ at EUFOR/NATO, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2015 (Six months) Staff Officer, ‘‘Resolute Support Mission’’ at NATO, Kabul, Afghanistan
2016-2017 Liaison Officer, between Gendarmerie General Command and Directorate General of Migration Management, Ankara, Turkey
2017-2021 Head of Intelligence, Flight and Ground Safety Department, UAV Command, Elazig, Turkey
2021- Head of UAV Flight Operations and Support Department, Gendarmerie General Command UAV Command, Ankara, Turkey.
Language Skills
English
1967
Lieutenant-Colonel Marti Grashof was born in 1967 in the Netherlands. He is a Dutch Army officer within the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Marti served most of his professional career in multinational operations, mutual international police assistance and in police work in an international context.
1989
In 1989, Marti’s first steps in the military were as a conscript and petty officer in the Royal Marechaussee, where he served as MP.
1998
He attended the Royal Military Academy in Breda in 1998, from which he graduated with the rank of Second Lieutenant. He held positions as MP platoon commander, and within the aviation security branche, as Commanding Officer for High Risk Flights at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. As a major, Marti was head of the Expertise Centre for Crowd & Riot Control at the Marechaussee Training Center in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
2009
In 2009 Marti was deployed in Afghanistan in the ISAF mission. he served in the province of Uruzgan in the G7 cell of the Task Force Uruzgan. Within the Sector Security Reform branche he was responsible for the training of the Afghan National Police. After this mission he worked at the General Headquarters of the Royal Marechaussee as Chief Officer tot he Director of Operations.
2012 – 2015
From 2012 until 2015 Marti asumed the position of Commanding Officer in the province of Utrecht and Noord-Holland for Marechaussee operations.
2015
In 2015 he joint the EULEX mission in Kosovo where he worked as shiftleader in the Joint Operation Room of the EULEX HQ in Pristina.
2017
In April 2017 he was, as Lieutenant-Colonel, detached from the Royal Marechaussee to the National Police, to work as Head of the Unit Foreign Affairs, of the National Police Information Service Organisation in Zoetermeer, Netherlands.
2020
As of September 2020 he is posted as Chief of Staff at the NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence, Vicenza, Italy.
