Lt. Col. Jonty Ambrose

Lt. Col. Jonty Ambrose attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1997 and commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. He spent his early career on Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks as a Troop Leader, Squadron Second‐in‐Command and Regimental Gunnery Officer based in Fallingbostel, Germany. In 1999 and 2001, he completed operational tours of Kosovo, the latter working alongside UN and Kosovo Police Service in Podujevo.

In 2003 he deployed with 7 Armoured Brigade on Operation TELIC in Iraq working as SO3 Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR), double‐hatting as SO3 Targets. He returned to the UK as SO3 Organisation & Commitments for 52 Infantry Brigade headquartered in Edinburgh Castle. 

Following staff training and an in‐service Master’s degree in Information Management and Technology, he was appointed the UK Head of Delegation to the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP), which develops data interoperability standards designed to support multilateral, combined and joint operations. He returned to regimental duty as a Squadron Leader in 2009 and was subsequently selected for the Higher Defence Studies Programme completing an MPhil in International Relations at St John’s College Cambridge. 

After a further tour of Whitehall overseeing MOD Future Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Systems, he deployed on Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan running the then Afghan National Army (ANA) Mobile Strike Force (MSF) Programme. Following return from Afghanistan, he completed two staff appointments in Joint Forces Command, which involved working with several British Defence Sections in Africa. 

In 2019, Lt. Col. Ambrose was appointed Chief of Staff at the International Peace Support Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He returned to the Field Army in 2023 as SO1 Operate based in Nairobi with a remit to develop partnered training opportunities between the British Army and armies in Eastern and Southern Africa. 

Lt. Col. Ambrose played squash for the Royal Armoured Corps and also enjoys a game of social tennis. He is an occasional and erratic cricketer and follows the fortunes of England and Scotland in international rugby. Married to Joy, they have two young children both of whom attend school in Nairobi.