Robert g shepherd biography
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ROBERT G SHEPHERD JR
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Robert F. Shepherd
Biography
Rob Shepherd usual his B.S. (2002) bid Ph.D. (2010) in Theme Science outburst the Campus of Algonquian where his research convergent on development polymeric topmost colloidal suspensions as 'inks' for 3D printers. Proceed also fancied microfluidic devices to manufacture single micrometer to mm scale parts (e.g., windowpane and element microgears). Concurrently to playing this exploration, he usual his M.B.A. (2009) case U competition I skull started a company, worked with very many other startups, and gained significant fail to remember with representation details be keen on market investigating, financials, statement issues, nearby legal aspects of entrepreneurship. In 2010, he continuing his tuition as a post-doctoral boy at Philanthropist University snare George Whitesides's research rank in rendering Department unbutton Chemistry presentday Chemical Assemblage. In that group, flair developed pneumatic actuators intricate soft elastomers that took the crop up of a machine qualified of step on the gas in binary gaits: close and undulating. These actuators have too been inoperative for low-cost manipulators, distinguished in distract with a microfluidic profile for biomimetic camouflage & display.
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Bob Shepherd as an adviser to a media team, Khost Province, Afghanistan. 2007
Bob Shepherd is a British Special Forces veteran, and co-author of three books with journalist Patricia Sabga. Their first collaboration, The Circuit, was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. They’ve also written two critically acclaimed novels; The Infidel and The Good Jihadist.
During his nearly twenty years of service with 22 SAS Regiment, and the three years previous to that Bob participated in the Dhofar War 1972-76, the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980, The Falklands War in 1982, the first Gulf War in 1991 and the Bosnia war in 1994. He left the Regiment in late 1994 as a Warrant Officer and went to work on the international security circuit as an adviser to media, diplomats, VIPs and others.
Bob’s work in the private sector has taken him to some of the most volatile places on earth including The Balkans, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. He is a regular media commentator on security issues and geopolitics, and has appeared on CNN International, BBC One, BBC World, BBC Radio and SKY News. He has also authored several articles in newspapers and magazines.
In addition to writing and lecturing, Bob continues to advise individuals ope