Brigadier General Peter Gielen

Portfolio Manager Royal Netherlands Army

Colonel Peter Gielen was born in 1964. He studied at the Netherlands Royal Military Academy from 1985 until 1989 and after graduation he was commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Army Air Defence Artillery. Graduating from the General Staff College in 2001 he was assigned to the Army Staff in The Hague in the Planning Branch. From 2005 until 2013 he held several posts as a logistical officer in the Army Staff, the Land Operations Support Command (LOSC) and as the Battalion Commander of 100 Supply and Transportation Battalion in Garderen. While working as the G3 of the LOSC he was also the chairman of the joint project team for the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification in the Dutch Armed Forces, a system used during the redeployment from Uruzgan in 2010. After ending his assignment as a policy advisor in The Hague in 2013, Colonel Gielen studied at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. From 2014 until 2017 he commanded the Netherlands Ground Based Air Defence Command. After that he was posted in The Hague at the Defence Staff. In 2020 he became the Chief of Staff of The Netherlands Defence Academy. He held this post until 2022 when he was promoted to Brigadier General and he became the Director Portfolio Army Command in Utrecht. Brigadier General Gielen was deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005, Afghanistan in 2008 and 2010 and to Turkey in 2014.