Consultants

Country of Birth: Ghana
Education: MBA, (University of Leicester, UK) Economics & Finance.

Chief Military Training and Evaluation Officer, UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mali.

Lt. Colonel Alex Cann has over eighteen (18) years’ military experience with backgrounds in Leadership, Security Policy, Operations Management, Humanitarian Operations, Program Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Training, Conflict, Crisis & Security Management. His extensive, management and leadership experience and positions on national and international United Nation missions has equipped him with critical problem-solving skills. He is a professional security management specialist, a certified protection professional, Senior Consultant for United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme, a member and Subject Matter Expert for the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) Programme and a member of ASIS International, an American professional security management group with about 40,000 memberships. As Chief Military Training and Evaluation Officer of UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mali, Lt. Col. Cann leads the UN Force evaluation team to evaluate Sector Headquarters and Contingents and submits reports to UN Headquarters in New York through the Force Commander, plans, coordinates and supervises the implementation of the Force Commanders policies, guidance and directives with regards to the training and evaluation of the UN Force, manages and conducts the training of 10,500 UN troops and regular training needs assessment in order to review the training modules of the UN Force in close collaboration with the Integrated Training Service in UN Headquarter in New York. Lt. Colonel Cann has led the operational, logistics, and administrative efficiency of 300 Ghanaian troops UN peacekeepers with their sustainment equipment worth $150m in South Sudan; international 8-member team of commissioned Officers to monitor and report cease fire violations in a remote village in Democratic Republic of Congo; teams to manage crisis in range of Army, joint, inter-agency, intergovernmental and multinational operations in complex, uncertain, and conflicts environments in Africa; planned and executed the security and protection of installations in Ghana, and across Un Peacekeeping Missions in some African countries such as Sierra Leone, South Sudan and DR Congo. He served as Director of Army Peacekeeping Operations, Army Headquarters in Ghana Army from July 2016 – February 2017, where he coordinated and managed nominations, selections and screenings of troops prior to pre- deployment training for international peacekeeping operations, coordinated the pre-deployment training of Ghanaian contingents for international peacekeeping operations, planned the rotation or replacement of Ghanaian contingents on international peacekeeping operations, received and compiled reports from Ghanaian contingents on international peacekeeping operations and prepared them for the Chief of Army Staff, coordinated the UN peacekeeping training in partnership with   the United States African Contingency Operations Assistance (ACOTA) team in Ghana. As the Command Operations and Training Officer, Central Command, Ghana Army, from March 2016 – July 2016, Lt. Col. Cann led and supervised a team of Staff Officers and civilians at the Headquarters, Coordinated the operational and training activities of military Units under Command, ensured that reports and returns from Units under Command are received, complied and submitted to Army Headquarters on time, and liaised with headquarters staff of other security agencies and stakeholders within the Command/Region.