Jim King
Associate Consultant
jking (at) cfncon.com
Vice Admiral James (Jim) King CMM, CD, (retired) joined CFN as an Associate Consultant on 1 October 2002 after a distinguished 38-year career in the Canadian Forces. He retired in September 2002 after completing a 4-year appointment as Canada's Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Permanent Session in Brussels. He served at sea as an operations, communications and air control specialist in various Canadian and NATO warships including a tour of duty as the operations officer of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. He commanded a destroyer and a destroyer squadron and acted as the Chief of Staff Operations for Canada's initial deployment to the Persian Gulf for Operation DESERT STORM.
Admiral King served in several senior staff positions in Headquarters in Halifax and Ottawa in Personnel and Training, Force Development and Policy and Communications. He was instrumental in introducing several key personnel and training policy initiatives into the Canadian Navy; and he conceived and successfully promoted a number of naval equipment programs including the Canadian procurement of submarines from the Royal Navy. As Associate Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy and Communications), he represented Canada as the Senior Canadian Military Representative on the Canada-US Permanent Joint Board of Defence. He led Canadian Defence Staff talks in Washington, London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul and Moscow and represented Canadian issues at the United Nations and NATO.
Admiral King has acted as Senior Military Advisor to four Ministers of National Defence on key issues involving NATO, the UN, Peacekeeping, NORAD and Ballistic Missile Defence and Canada-US security relations. His military experience has involved him extensively with government and industry in Canada, the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific and he has been a key player in efforts to restructure and streamline staff organization and operations in Canadian headquarters in Halifax and Ottawa and in NATO headquarters in Brussels. Throughout, he has been active in promoting partnerships between the military and other government departments, non-governmental organizations and business and industry.
Admiral King holds a degree in International Relations from McGill University in Montreal and is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, UK.