Chris served for nineteen years in the Royal Artillery and as a Commando Battery commander, deployed to Kurdistan in support of the 1991 humanitarian mission. After leaving the British Army, he was recruited in 1996 by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for secondment to UNSCOM as an Iraq Weapons Inspector and Operations Officer. He was appointed Chief Inspector conducting investigations into proscribed weapons programs and suspected concealment.
FCO secondment as an observer to the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission followed; duties included undertaking investigations into three major incidents subsequently referred to the International Criminal Tribunal Yugoslavia (ICTY): Racak, Rogovo and Racavina. Appointments held were Liaison Officer to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), mediating prisoner and body exchanges, and Commander of the Urosevac Region.
Chris returned to the Balkans independently during the NATO offensive to advise and escort journalists and camera crews covering events in Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. Since Kosovo Chris has continued to provide support to the media, as well as advise industry and NGO’s in hostile locations such as war and conflict zones, football riots, and on top of an active volcano!
In addition, Chris has conducted investigations into a number of high-profile human rights and humanitarian law violations, primarily in the Israeli Occupied Territories and those controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Foremost among these were the deaths in 2000 of a BBC driver/fixer Abed Takkoush and in May 2003 of director and cameraman James Miller in Rafah, Gaza.
FCO secondment as an observer to the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission followed; duties included undertaking investigations into three major incidents subsequently referred to the International Criminal Tribunal Yugoslavia (ICTY): Racak, Rogovo and Racavina. Appointments held were Liaison Officer to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), mediating prisoner and body exchanges, and Commander of the Urosevac Region.
Chris returned to the Balkans independently during the NATO offensive to advise and escort journalists and camera crews covering events in Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. Since Kosovo Chris has continued to provide support to the media, as well as advise industry and NGO’s in hostile locations such as war and conflict zones, football riots, and on top of an active volcano!
In addition, Chris has conducted investigations into a number of high-
Chris Cobb-Smith started Chiron in 2000.
He is regarded as a leading expert on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
He is an advisor to INSI.
He has a Close Protection License. 0801 1002 0438 2609
He is regarded as a leading expert on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
He is an advisor to INSI.
He has a Close Protection License. 0801 1002 0438 2609
"Chris worked with me in Iraq. He had been hand selected by the Executive Chairman of the Special Commission in 1997. He had outstanding operational, logistical and leadership skills. These were combined with courage and loyalty tested by extreme conditions. His clear thinking and ability to work effectively under pressure was continuously tested in Iraq. His leadership and composed behaviour always resulted in diffusing difficult situations. This man has a proven track record of performance and leadership at the international level that can be matched only by a few."
Scott Ritter, Senior Arms Inspector, Iraq 1991-98
Scott Ritter, Senior Arms Inspector, Iraq 1991-