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A directory of legal advisers across NATO’s civilian and military structures, organisations and agencies, with separate listings for NATO Force Structure (NFS) headquarters and Combined Air Operations Centres (CAOCs).

The NATO legal community

Browse by organisation. This simplified chart shows organisational placement; connecting lines do not indicate professional reporting relationships between legal advisers.

NATONorth Atlantic Council

Civilian structure

  • Secretary General & International Staff

    • Office of Legal Affairs

      • WallLegal Adviser & Director
      • PulkowskiDeputy Legal Adviser & Deputy Director
      • McCormackLegal adviser — public international law
      • SangiuoloLegal adviser

Military structure

  • Military Committee

    • International Military Staff

      • YoungSenior Legal Advisor

    • Allied Command Operations / SHAPE

      • LupiLegal Advisor — Acting Head, International Law Branch
      • PaciosLegal Advisor — Data Protection

      Office of Legal Affairs. Current ACO Legal Advisor / Director appointment remains to be verified.

      • JFC Brunssum

        • NautaLegal adviser

      • JFC Naples

        • MaccariLegal Advisor

      • JFC Norfolk

        • KjelgaardLegal adviser

    • Allied Command Transformation

      • HartovLegal adviser
      • TrégarotStaff Legal Advisor

Organisations & agencies

  • NCI Agency

    • CarrollManaging Counsel
    • WhitesideLegal Advisor

  • NATO Support and Procurement Agency

    • TavadianGeneral Counsel
    • GodueLegal Advisor — iAFSC / AFSC programmes

  • Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)

    • KlavinsActing General Counsel

  • Science and Technology Organization (STO)

    Current legal-adviser name to be verified.

    • Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)

      Current legal-adviser name to be verified.

    • Collaboration Support Office (CSO)

      Current legal-adviser name to be verified.

  • NATO AEW&C Programme Management Agency (NAPMA)

    Current legal-adviser name to be verified.

  • NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA)

    Current legal-adviser name to be verified.

  • NATO Helicopter Management Agency (NAHEMA)

    Current legal-adviser name to be verified.

Last reviewed: . This directory is being expanded and is not a complete NATO personnel list. Appointments may change.

Additional headquarters

NATO Force Structure (NFS)

Selected corps headquarters and NATO-available formations. Named entries show the appointment documented by the cited source; dated entries are not confirmation of continued service in 2026.

Air operations

Combined Air Operations Centres (CAOCs)

CAOCs form part of the NATO Command Structure. Current legal-adviser names remain to be verified.

Sources & removal requests

Information has been scraped from publicly accessible LinkedIn profiles and posts, supplemented by public institutional sources and information supplied directly. The organisational structure follows NATO’s published structure. The separate corps list draws on NATO’s Rapid Deployable Corps overview; inclusion of a unit does not confirm its current legal-adviser appointment.

Additional entry references: 2026 speaker biography (Lupi); Privacy Symposium biography (Pacios, role described in 2023), cross-checked against her public LinkedIn listing; public LinkedIn listing (Klavins). Public listings may lag appointment changes. Agency coverage follows NATO’s agency overview and the May 2025 heads-of-agencies meeting.

NFS entry references: Italian Army 2024 personnel disclosure (Ferrari); May 2024 university speaker biography (Xaixo Peyró), also identified in the NRDC-ESP 2022 journal; Eurocorps EPIC magazine, p. 57 (Gerhold). Current office-holders at ARRC, 1 GNC, RRC-FR, NRDC-GR, NRDC-T and MNC-NE remain unverified. The 2026 university CV for Zalidis describes his NRDC-GR directorship (2022–2026) as a former appointment, so he is not listed as its current adviser.

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