An interview with Group Captain John Clark, Royal Air Force -Assistant Director, Airspace Policy 2
Group Captain John Clark currently represents the Military ATM Board of Eurocontrol. As Group Captain for Air Traffic Control (ATC) at the UK’s Headquarters Air, he was responsible for military ATC policy and all aspects of service delivery with a particular focus on expeditionary ATC. Group Capt Clark joined the Royal Air Force in 1976 and was subsequently commissioned into the Air Traffic Control Branch. He has served with the RAF in a variety of posts in the UK, Belize, Germany and Saudi Arabia, where he was directly responsible for all UK air operations over Afghanistan. He has also held a Desk Officer appointment within the UK’s Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Secretariat, acting as the Ministry of Defence’s focal point in providing support to firstly UNMOVIC and, post-hostilities, the Iraq Survey Group.