Tim Radford

In January 2010 he was made Head of Overseas Operations in the Ministry of Defence and on promotion to major general in November 2011, he assumed the position of Chief of Staff of the ISAF Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan. He took over as General Officer Force Troops Command in February 2013 and in this capacity he oversaw the operation to provide medical assistance for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in Autumn 2014. On promotion to lieutenant general in July 2015 he was selected as Deputy Commander Resolute Support Mission and then as Commander Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in July 2016. He promoted to general and assumed the appointment of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe on 2 April 2020.

Educated at MCB, Rugby School, Durham University (BA, Politics) and King's College London (MA, War Studies), Radford was commissioned into The Light Infantry in 1985. He spent four years in command appointments before joining the School of Infantry as an instructor in 1989. He attended Staff College, Camberley in 1995. On promotion to colonel in 2005 he was appointed as Assistant Director of Counter Terrorism and United Kingdom Operations at the Ministry of Defence. He went on to command 19 Light Brigade in 2008, during which he deployed as Commander of Task Force Helmand between April and October of that year and led the major offensive Operation Panther's Claw in Summer 2009.

General Tim Buchan Radford, CB, DSO, OBE (born 23 February 1963) is a British Army officer who has served as Commander Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and as Deputy Commander Resolute Support Mission. He is currently Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe as of April 2020.