Major General Andy Cox CBE
Commissioning from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1996 as an Infantry Officer in the Staffordshire Regiment, Major General Andy Cox held multiple operational commands in Dismounted Infantry, Armoured Infantry and Armoured Reconnaissance roles. He has seen extensive operational service in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has served globally, with deployments to Kenya, Germany, Canada, Cyprus and Oman. He has held key staff positions at Battle Group, Brigade, Division and Army level, in addition to a tour in the Ministry of Defence. Following command of the Army Training Regiment, he served as the Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the U.K.'s Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ), where he led a Joint Task Force (JTF) in Iraq in 2020, in addition to a series of national recovery and repatriation missions.
No stranger to the U.S. Army, he served as the Deputy Commanding General (Maneuver) for the 1st (U.S.) Armored Division and Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, between 2020 and 2022. Most recently he has been in a UK Joint billet as the Chief of Staff of Standing Joint Command (U.K.) from 2022 to 2025. There he was responsible for the delivery of Defence contribution to homeland security and resilience operations in addition to the modernization of the Army’s strategic base.
He has a degree in Business from the University of Wales, a Masters in International Relations from Kings College London, and he is a graduate of the Higher Command and Staff Course (U.K.).