Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, is a senior associate fellow and advisory board member at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and currently serves as the strategic advisor to the president of Zambia. He sat on the Danish Africa Commission and the African Development Bank’s high-level panel on fragile states. He served four deployments to Afghanistan as the advisor to the commander, and he has also worked extensively in Colombia, and with a variety of African governments to improve the conditions for stability, investment and growth. Along with Dr Kilcullen, he is the author of The Ledger, which pinpoints the reasons for failure in Afghanistan.
Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, is a senior associate fellow and advisory board member at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and currently serves as the strategic advisor to the president of Zambia. He sat on the Danish Africa Commission and the African Development Bank’s high-level panel on fragile states. He served four deployments to Afghanistan as the advisor to the commander, and he has also worked extensively in Colombia, and with a variety of African governments to improve the conditions for stability, investment and growth. Along with Dr Kilcullen, he is the author of The Ledger, which pinpoints the reasons for failure in Afghanistan.